[mvapich-discuss] Re: Problems with hostname resolution and MPI_INIT() (Mike Heinz)

Dhabaleswar Panda panda at cse.ohio-state.edu
Wed Jan 14 09:40:36 EST 2009


Thanks for these suggestions. We will add this information to the user
guide.

Thanks,

DK

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Christian Guggenberger wrote:

> > entry on /etc/hosts. Of course, with this, no more mvapich code change for
> > me.  May be the solution to this is let mvapich install guide to advise or
> > recommend to create entry for hostname in /etc/hosts, and to warn the
> > potential problem if added it into 127.0.0.1. (May be this is already been
> > done and, well, I have to admit that I did not read the entire install
> > guide. )
> >
>
> I agree with Terrence to have such an advice in the FAQ/install guid.
> One could then also point out that hostnames should be RFC compliant.
> (people every now and then stumble across underscores in hostnames ...)
>
> cheers.
>  - Christian
>
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