MultiNet FAQs & Technical Tips
Tech Tips
General
- Where on the HP web site can I get the HP KRB$RTL.EXE shareable image?
- How do I determine what version of MultiNet I'm running?
- Are there any mailing lists or other ways to talk to other MultiNet users?
- How can I find out what patches are available for MultiNet?
- What do I do if MultiNet fails to start on an Integrity system?
- Is there a way to tell what process owns a connection?
Configuration
- I'd like to join two sites with a secure tunnel using MultiNet IPSEC on an AlphaServer at each site.
- How do I use MultiNet on another node in the cluster that it was not previously installed on?
- How can I verify that my new service is installed?
- Can I change MultiNet's IP address without rebooting the system?
- Do I need to add the loopback network when I define the trusted local networks?
- I would like to shorten the amount of time a connection is attempted before it is timed out and an error is returned. Can this be done in MultiNet?
- How do I get the outbound IP to look like the cluster alias IP so the NAT works properly?
DECNET
- How do I add the /NODECNET qualifier to initialization of SE interfaces?
- How to enable your applications that are designed to execute over DECNET to execute over TCP/IP instead.
DHCP
DNS
- I would like to change the amount of time it takes for DNS name lookups to fail. Can this be done?
- Can zone transfers be allowed from certain hosts only?
- After upgrading MultiNet, NAMED no longer performs zone transfers from the primary server.
- Can I restrict what hosts can do a zone transfer from my DNS server?
- What is the difference between DNS Load Balancing and Cluster Aliasing?
- Why are underscores not allowed in DNS host names?
- Why do I get OPCOM error messages when I start the MultiNet nameserver as a secondary to a Windows server?
- What does the named: default: warning: check_hints: error mean?
- Name Server Configuration File
- Simple DNS Configuration Example
- Sample DNS Name Server Configuration
- Domain Delegation
- Creating a DNS Root Name Server for an Off-Internet Site ("Fake Root")
- Using a Caching-only Name Server
- Adding Forwarders to Your DNS Configuration
- How often is the DDNS zone information check-pointed to the zone file, and is this configurable?
- How do I disable OPCOM Messages from NAMED?
FTP
- When a Unix client uses FTP to put files to my MultiNet system the file names get changed, some have $’s added to them, why?
- Why does FTPing savesets from VMS to Windows cause the record length to change?
- Can I configure different FTP access for different users?
- Why do I get "Invalid Block Side" errors after installing a website patch?
- How can I run multiple FTP servers on different ports?
Miscellaneous
- If a system has two interfaces on it, can I assign an address to both cards so if one card fails the address can still be reached?
- Why is the configuration file missing a block?
- Is there any way to make the NTY session show up as REMOTE instead of LOCAL?
- Why is the message not transferred to the client when a POP3 user has a large attachment to an email?
- Why can I not make an Rshell connection when my .rhost and my host.equiv files seem correct?
- Why does the process hang when I try to MOUNT RMTalloc device?
- Information Needed to analyze a crash
- Why can't I read directories with TFTP even though they are in the translations file?
- Can I install MultiNet in a cluster with different versions of OpenVMS?
NFS
- What is the NFS server connection limit?
- What does this mean? Server acting 'catatonic' - can't start NFS_SERVERIO processes
- How to Check and Fix NFS Server Process Quotas
NTP
- Will NTP take care of setting the VMS logicals?
- Should I use the VMS system parameter AUTO_DLIGHT_SAV?
- I need to change some logical names at DST changes in support of various applications we run. How can I do this automatically?
- Does MultiNet change the system time for daylight savings time?
Printing
- Why is the LPD server giving me this message? Record too large for user's buffer
- Why are the LPD queues not working?
- Is there a way to stop OPCOM messages when a print symbiont does not connect to the printer?
SMTP
- Can I use the SMTP_SERVER_REJECT file to reject mail based on the subject?
- How do I suppress the mail headers in MultiNet's SMTP?
- How is MultiNet configured to send mail when it is behind a firewall?
- How is MultiNet configured to send mail when it is behind a firewall, or needs to send all messages through our site's SMTP relay server?
SNMP
SSH/SFTP
- I need to set up an SFTP2 transfer to work from a batch job. I'm not seeing an equivalent to the /PASSWORD qualifier that we were using with normal FTP - is there a recommended methodology for supplying the password in batch mode?
- I have enabled SSH in my MultiNet configuration. When trying to create the host master key via the $ MULTINET SSH KEYGEN command, why do I receive the GETHOSTNAME: FUNCTION NOT IMPLEMENTED error message?
- What is the difference between SSH v2 and SSH v1 protocol?
- Which applications can I secure besides Telnet and the R services?
- Which encryption ciphers are supported?
- MultiNet SSH Port Forwarding
- When I do an ls command to some SFTP servers (on UNIX systems), the list of files is not alphabetized, but on others it is. Why?
- Why do I have problems with version numbers (or wildcards for version numbers) when in VMS mode?
- I connected to a system running an earlier version of Process Software's SFTP-SERVER2 and VMS transfer mode was not automatically negotiated.
- Why is the directory from a VMS system presented in UNIX format when VMS transfer mode is not in use?
- Why do the filenames on my VMS system have $ characters in them?
- Why doesn't SFTP2 have a TRANSLATE mode like SCP2 does?
- I am using WinSCP on my PC and it won't work with the VMS system. Why?
- I've enabled the SSH server to do SSH1 but not SSH2 and my attempts to use SFTP fail. Why?
- How do I setup HOST BASED authentication so that any user can SSH without using a password? This is system based authentication rather than user based.
- How can I configure MultiNet's SSH server to ignore client connection requests from addresses which are not in some sort of "approved" list?
- Is there a way to identify whether a user's current interactive session is connected via SSH protocol v1 rather than v2 so that a message can be displayed?
- Can you change the port the SSH server listens on?
- How can I avoid the SSHD.LOG file version number reaching 32768?
- I can't use public key authorization when
SYS$LOGIN:involves a search list - Why does the SFTP client hang after issuing a
DIRcommand to certain sites, notably VSI's vmssoftware.com?
Telnet
- Do I need to use the HPE software if I want to run another KDC with MultiNet?
- It seems that after five or so incoming FTP (or TELNET) connections have been established, other people can connect, but their sessions 'hang.' Is this a MultiNet problem?
- What do I need from HPE to run MultiNet's Kerberos 5 Telnet server and client?
- Why do TELNET and FTP take 1 to 2 minutes to connect?
- How can I restrict certain services (e.g., TELNET, FTP) to certain cluster nodes?
- I've upgraded from a really old version of MultiNet and the accept-hosts on the TELNET service is not working correctly. Addresses on the accept-hosts are not allowed access to the service.