> In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (Robert E. Williams, Jr.) writes:
> > The past two days I've been getting DNS errors when I try to log into
> > either MiamiU or MiaVX1 using a telnet session. Is there anything wrong?
> > Everything else--WWW, NetNews, etc.--works fine. I'm coming from a direct
> > connection in Swing, if that'll help.
 
I just figured out what was going on. Using Open Transport 1.1.2, it used
to be that I all I had to do was switch to Ethernet and DHCP in the TCP/IP
control panel, and all worked swell in the expected Mac fashion. However, a
few fays ago, I started getting the above-noted errors when I tried using
NCSA Telnet or tn3270 to log in to MiaVX1 or MiamiU, respectively. A few
minutes ago, I went into the TCP/IP control panel on a huntch and entered
muohio.edu into the search domains field. I *shouldn't* need to do this,
since OT has ways of completing unqualified domain names on its own, and I
haven't needed to since the day I came in and plugged in the Ethernet cable
at the beginning of the year.
 
This all leads me to conclude that something has indeed changed on the
sever's end. It probably hasn't shown up as a problem for many other people
because they either used the MUNet installer (which I think enters it by
default), they just don't telnet, or both. Any ideas?
 
 
Regards,
Bob
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Robert E. Williams
Macintosh Developer
Enterprise Software
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