rs6000 Hostname problem

[Marc Auslander]

In article <1320 at anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> edelson at ils.nwu.edu (Daniel Choy Edelson) writes:

>I have a problem with an rs6000 that previously had a different
>name.  Even though we have reset the hostname (within smit), and the
>hostname command returns the new name...

>When I rlogin or rsh to another host, it tells the other host the 
>old name.  Thus, to get appropriate permissions, I have to put the
>old name in the remote machine's .rhost and hosts.equiv files.

>Does anyone know why the machine is still broadcasting the
>old name?  (The old name has been removed from /etc/hosts, also).

It doesn't work that way.  The "other" machine gets what it thinks is
the host name by looking up your machine's ip address in the "other"
machine's /etc/hosts or asking the nameserver, if you are using one.
So either the nameserver or the "other" machine's /etc/hosts file is
the culprit.
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Marc Auslander       <marc at ibm.com>