On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Randall Hopper wrote:
> Fuan Tsai: > |Hi dx developers, > | > |Looks like my last mail did not go through, so I am sending it again. > | > |After upgrading to 4.2.0 using the i386.rpm from opendx.org, my .nets are > |no longer able to connect to outboard modules. The error messages read > |like this: > | > |ERROR: <module_name>: Bad parameter: connection to host > |localhost.localdomain failed. > | > |These modules and nets worked happily in 4.1.3. Any suggestion to make > |them work again in 4.2? The system in question is an AMD Athlon box > |running RedHat 7.2. > > Early last year I submitted a patch so DX would use FQDNs (fully qualified > domain names) to support connections (dxexecs, etc.) in other domains. I > thought this was in 4.1.3, but if not it could be related to your problem. > > Is your DNS truly configured so that your box's domain is "localdomain"? > Try "telnet localhost.localdomain." and "telnet localhost". If the > first command doesn't work and the second does, it's not, and that's your > problem. Also try "nslookup localhost.localdomain.". > > Randy > I think this could be it. "localhost.localdomain" is not resolved. I need to let our sysadmin know about this. Thanks for the info. Fuan Tsai EES-6, MS D462 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545
