Re: solution to unable to connect to process problem

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Kevin Scantlan
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    We came upon the solution while dealing with something we though unrelated.  Here’s the deal:

    the hcicmd command has a “-h” parameter, which we never use, for the host.  If left off,  it defaults to LOCALHOST.  We have LOCALHOST set up in our hosts file pointing to 127.0.0.1 as we should.   However, our sys admin tells us that AIX by default first looks at the DNS to resolve names, then looks at the hosts file.  This has not been a problem until someone in the network added a DNS entry that had localhost.xxx.yyy (xxx.yyy being our domain), so we were trying to connect to that IP to send the hcicmd to.

    Our solution has been to have AIX first look at the hosts file, then the DNS for name resolution.  Our sys admin is looking into that.  Hopefully it will not require a reboot of the server.