Re: plip installation (Host name lookup failure)
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G'day all,
On 02-Aug-2000 Alexander Clouter wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, David Karlin wrote:
I take it that VC1 and VC2 are your two machines?
>> Over on VC1, the installation scripts are running, and I'm at the
Can VC1 ping any hosts on the internet? (Either by IP address or
hostname.) You say that VC2 can ping hosts, so it's DNS configuration is
fine. How about the DNS configuration on VC1?
> only thing I could think of is if your DNS servers are set up
> properly? However if you can ping *hostnames* then they are set up
> fine.
I was wondering whether the Internet-connected host had IP forwarding
enabled? If VC2 is being used as VC1's gateway, then you will need to
have IP forwarding (masquerading, etc) enabled.
> One other suggestion, use ftp instead of http. More relible and also
I'll agree with that point. FTP is much more robust when it comes to
moving files around.
> Alex
Steve
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