[SunHELP] Strange rsh problem from 2.8 to AIX, HP-UX

[Will Yardley]

Robin Kay wrote:

> A question appeared on this list in late May 2001 about a problem with
> rshd on AIX returning: "rshd: 0826-823 Cannot look up the address for
> your host" for apparently valid rsh commands.

what does a reverse lookup on the hostname of the machine you're
connecting from result in? perhaps rsh fails when there's no reverse
dns for the connecting host?

not to be rude, but why are you using rsh / rlogin and not ssh?

w