[KLUG Members] Across the room, AND across the world!

Robert G. Brown members@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:48:00 -0500


>On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:51:19PM -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote:
>
>> But that didn't make it work alone... Bruce Smith sent... a bunch of
>> questions, and in gathering the info ...discovery of an error in the
>> setup for the new machine.
>So what was the error?
The new hostname in DNS was DIFFERENT than it was elesewhere.

>Was it a simple typo or something more complex,
It was a complex typo, as it turned out. :)

>difficult -- enlightening, in other words?
Yes. I've learned the following:
1. Get your hostnames right!
2. Don't tlk on the phone and type DNS configuration files
   at the same time.

						Regards,
						---> RGB <---