AIX hostname

[progressdll]

ENV: AIX 4.3 RS/6000
( also involved machine is a redhat 6.1 intel )

Debugging an AIX "rsh permission denied" issue, i was told
to login from the client to the server and run "last | head"
to check what hostname the client is seeing.

In our case client = AIX, server = linux

So logging in from AIX to LINUX and run last | head
will give me this first line

joeri pts/2 Tue May 7 10:51 still logged in ibm250.nollekens.be.220.4.125.in-addr.arpa

So the client is getting the hostname
"ibm250.nollekens.be.220.4.125.in-addr.arpa"

running hostname on the AIX i get
"ibm250"

There is no nameserver active on the AIX. It simply uses /etc/hosts for name resolution.

Where is this strange hostname that linux sees comming
from. I think that is causing my rsh to fail

Thanks for any feedback,
Joeri

 

[avadh]

Hello,
vi /etc/netsvc.conf
hosts=local,bind4

Then save and quit.

this file will be looked at first to do hostname to ip name resolution.