Greetings I am trying to figure out how to get communication between my F14 boxes on a local wired LAN. The best test case I can come up with to prove that I don't know what I am doing wrong is telnet. Each machine has a /etc/hosts looking like (where <name> is the machine name and <other> is any other machine: +++ 127.0.0.1 <name> localhost.localdomain localhost <name>.localdomain localhost4 ::1 <name> localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 <name>.localdomain 192.168.2.10 <other1>.localdomain <other1> 192.168.2.11 <other2>.localdomain <other2> 192.168.2.12 <other3>.localdomain <other3> +++ For the other machines, its name is removed in the 192.168.10.x list and 192.168.2.13 <name>.localdomain <name> is added Each machines has a /etc/sysconfig/network of: +++ NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=<name>.localdomain NTPSERVERARGS=iburst +++ I didn't see any reference to <name> or <otherX> in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, so I am not including it ... if there should be something, I'd love to know! I can't think of any other place for <otherX> or <otherX>.localdomain, but that's out of ignorance as I haven't encountered this sort of problem before. The splash screen for all machines is <name>.localdomain. The command hostname returns <name>.localdomain. Ping works great between all of the machines for both <otherX> and <otherX>.localdomain, lists the 192.168.10.x address like a happy camper should But a telnet <otherX> 25 or telnet <otherX>.localdomain 25 fails. I can't tell if I need to add information about the other machines somewhere else on <name> or if they really are known but something is blocking it. I also can't use mail/mailx between the machines. I noticed that mail/mailx always resolves <otherX> to <otherX>.localdomain (and sending to self is resolved to <name>.localdomain), so I changed network to use the localdomain suffix and added it in /etc/hosts before the instance of <other>. Neither telnet or mail/mailx worked with just <name>, so I am pretty certain that I didn't break anything by changing <name> to <name>.localdomain. Some machines were already using hostname of <name>.localdomain and my records aren't good enough to know how I specified the name of the machine when I installed F14 (it never was an issue as everything worked until I tested mail/mailx and telnet so I never documented exactly how I should set machine name on install). It seems that the telnet problem is a simpler one than the mail/mailx and if I can at least get telnet working, then I am closer to getting mail/mailx working. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
