rshd: 0826-826 The host name for your address is not known.

[kozlow]

Trying to rcp files between a Sun Server and an AIX server

Receive the following when I go from Sun to AIX....

rshd: 0826-826 The host name for your address is not known.

Works when I go from AIX to SUN.

I noticed that the traceroute returns a IP address when run on the SUN server. 1.1.1.1

On a sun server where it does work, traceroute returns the Name of the server.... X.Y.COM

I have the name of the server in both .rhosts and even added an entry by IP address... Which is not good to have something hard code when DNS should be taking care of this....

Yes I can do an NSLOOKUP going both directions....

 

[bfitzmai]

You .com return is from DNS. Do you have the AIX machine's hostname and IP Address in the Sun's host table?

 

[kozlow]

Do not want to hard code the name and IP address in the host file. Want all changes to be done in DNS.

 

[coffeysm]

Are your systems setup to use DNS? (ie: /etc/nsswitch.conf) just because you are able to perform an nslookup, does not necessarily mean your system will use it to resolve names. It means that you have /etc/resolv.conf configured properly.

Check for this in your /etc/nsswitch.conf

hosts: files nis dns [NOT FOUND = return]