Subject: Re: odd behavior w/ netatalk
From: Marc J. Miller (itlm019@mailbox.ucdavis.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 13:39:19 EDT
Is it possible that HOSTS is only read during bootup?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan McBeth" <ryan@mobiusnm.com>
To: <bill@mail.tasis.ch>; <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:03 AM
Subject: Re: odd behavior w/ netatalk
>
> Bill,
>
> I think that this has happened to me before. I've usually just added
> the name of the netatalk server to the System : Preferences : HOSTS
> file.
>
> However, I do remember a time when I set up Netatalk on a Friday
> afternoon, left for the weekend, and "Magically" everything worked on
> Monday. I can't explain why, but I know that it happened. So, maybe
> someone can answer both our questions.
>
> Ryan
>
> At 10:50 +0200 05/9/2000, bill@mail.tasis.ch wrote:
> >I don't understand -- last night I configured netatalk on my RH6.2 with
> >Netatalk-1.4b2+asun from contrib.redhat.com. It worked fine on an
> >Old Mac LC630
> >with 32 MB RAM and MacOS 7.5.3 without OpenTransport. But it wouldn't
work on
> >an older G3 running MacOS 8.1 with 64 MB RAM. When I clicked on
> >the server it
> >immeadately gave me the server won't connect error. I had seen this
> >before, and
> >remembered I had to fix /etc/hosts -- so I did this and I still got the
same
> >error (but it took about a minute). So I checked everything -- restarted
> >appletalk, etc and tried again. The old machine worked and the newer
machine
> >didn't. So I went home to sleep on it.
> >
> >Today I came in and they were all working :) ?? Even a iMac with MacOS
9.04
> >which I hadn't tested the previos evening. Any clue what could have been
> >happening? Is this likely to reoccur? I need dependability --
especially for
> >the G3's they are the computers in our main student lab.
> >
> >Is there a certain uptime needed for the appletalk network to settle in?
Was
> >this a fluke of nature?
> >
> >Any advice or reassurance that all is well would be appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks in Advance.
> >
> >Bill
> >
> >
> >
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