Brent Hasty wrote: > On Sunday 06 October 2002 22:45, Brent Hasty wrote: > >>All is good on the server, service stop and start properly, made a net-boot >>flopy. Terminal boots, finds dhcp, loads kernel, inits kernel, grabs >>moduled from clusternfs shared / directory on terminal server. Obtains IP >>and lease for 17000 duration. >> >>At this point things start not working so well: >> >> SCIODDART: Network is unreachable >> Mounting root filesystem 192.168.1.254 / at /sysroot >> If this file appears to hand check that the server of 192.168.1.254 / is >> able to reverse-map my IP address 192.168.1.11 to obtain my hostname >> client_192_168_1_11 >> >>And then it hangs. >>So I guess I need help getting the server to reverse map the ip and obtain >>the hostname properly. >> >>Whear and how, to set this up? >>documentation? > > odd, I pinged the terminal from the server while it was hung, and viola it > started loading the rest of the processes (like right around where you can > hit i for interactive boot) > > Ping response is under .2 millisecond
And does ping show the hostname of the client??? Have you got working DNS with reverse lookups (look up the IP of the client, and see if you get it's name). Otherwise, you should have a correct entry for it in /etc/hosts on the server. > > shut down rebooted, didnt seem to work this way a second time, maby more > likley was the 10 -15 minuits the terminal was sitting there hung, then began > initalization.... > > K, problem still not solved but interesting curiosity. -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
