Re: Here's a puzzler

[John Reynolds <jreyn us ibm com>]

Andrew Kelly  wrote on 10/30/2006 01:56:05 AM:

> Hi Rick, Bob, everybody,
> 
> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 11:03 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 10:10 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote:
> > > Right, problem solved.
> > > Pilot error.
> > > 
> > > Embarrassing.
> > 
> > Can you give us a hint as to what was wrong?  We're not trying to make
> > you feel bad, but the list archive is checked by people on occasion 
and
> > if you can post what you made a mistake on, it may prevent others from
> > making the same mistake.
> 
> <ehem>
> Errr.. yes.
> 
> As I was saying, these are new servers which I'm configuring, servers
> which I haven't yet added to my nameservers. It turned out to be a
> resolution problem, but not necessarily the one that Rick was pointing
> me towards in his reply.
> 
> For the sake of saving me a lot of keystrokes during config, I had
> simply added the new machines to the hosts file on my workstation and
> had quite simply mistyped and never noticed the mistake.
> I was attempting to contact IP addresses which didn't/don't exist.

Don't feel too bad.  Been there, done that, got the T-sriht.  ;)

john r