[Simh] Unable to telnet to other hosts

[Christopher Myers]

You're very welcome and I didn't expect that! ;)

One of the many oddities of OpenVMS.  You can't just telnet into a certain
address without it being defined a name in a database.  Everyday is an
adventure!


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 4:33 AM, priya chincholikar <priyachinc at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Everything works fine now. I poked around "@SYS$MANAGER:TCPIP$CONFIG" and
> finally I did
> TCPIP> SET HOST MYHOST /ADDRESS=192.168.0.37.
>
> So telnet to myhost connected!
>
> Finally such relief! Thanks a lot for the help and I'm a 'she' :)
>
> -Priya
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Christopher Myers <
> thisisentchris87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Quick update.
>>
>> Checking my VAXStation, using "CREATE HOST" does create the database file
>> that I believe solves your TELNET issue.  I had the same symptoms as Priya
>> (ping works, TELNET didn't) and adding the host I wanted to TELNET to fixed
>> it.
>>
>
>
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