Name translation problems

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

We're running an Apollo workstation connected to an Ethernet, upon which
also resides a number of other machines, including Macs and a MicroVAX,
namely this machine.

I declared the Apollo in the uVAX /etc/hosts and the uVAX in the Apollo
/etc/hosts, and rebuilt the hosts database on the Apollo.  It now recognizes
the name "motto" for telnet, rlogin, ftp, etc., but for some reason
always translates the corresponding IP address to "0.0.0.0" which
obviously does not produce the correct result.  Therefore,
"telnet 129.0.199.199" works, but "telnet motto" does not.  The same goes
for rlogin, rsh, ftp, and sendmail jobs.

Requests to the Apollo from the uVAX work fine.  Also, rlogins to the
Apollo from the uVAX show up as coming from 129.0.199.199 instead of from
"motto".

Can anyone help?

=============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ==========================
Motorola Canada, Ltd.     Communications Division, Toronto      [on work term]
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada               2B Math/Computer Science
Internet: murray at motto.UUCP (work)       mskucherawy at watmath.UWaterloo.ca (UW) 
UUCP:     uunet!utai!lsuc!motto!murray   uunet!watmath!mskucherawy