Need help with DHCP Client & Name servers

All,

I've got a PWS 600au running VMS 7.3-1 and TCP/IP Services V5.3-ECO
2, a hobbiest
system I'm trying to put on the internet.

I have a DSL modem from my provider (Verizon) and a LINKSYS BEFSR41
(4-port)
"EtherFast Cable/DSL Router)". Being unable to get the DSL modem to
talk DHCP to
the PWS directly, I installed the LINKSYS (which had been previously
owned and therefore
previously configured...I don't have a CD with a browser on it so I
can't even configure the
LINKSYS at this point...) and DHCP "got happy". Except for DNS...

I should also note here that I've done the absolute minimum
configuration on this "virgin"
system: following the docs, I simply did a @Sys$Startup:Tcpip$Startup
and was prompted
whether I wanted to configure DHCP Client, and I answered Yes.

Very similar to the thread "DHCP client - Help configuring.", from
May 6, 2006, in which
Mark (shofu...@xxxxxxxxxxxx) was trying to configure a DS10 as a DHCP
client, but under
VMS 8.2 and TCPIP v5.5-11, I get very similar log file entries. In
particular, the DHCP startup
executes a command file that looks like this:

$ SET NOON
$ SET PROCESS/PRIV=(SYSPRV, ???)
$ TCPIP SET NAME/SYSTEM /DISABLE
$ TCPIP SET NAME/SYSTEM /NOSERVER=*
$ TCPIP SET NAME/SYSTEM /SERVER=(ip-addr-1, ip-addr-2)
$ TCPIP SET NAME/SYSTEM /ENABLE
$ EXIT

(The above from my notes, I don't have access to the internet from the
system yet, duh!)

The TCPIP SET NAME/SYSTEM /ENABLE fails (like Mark's did) with the
follow error:

%TCPIP-E-NAMEERROR, error processing name service request
-TCPIP-E-INSBINDDATA, insufficient data to enable BIND

Like, what's it missing??? Similar to Mark's example, TCPIP SHOW NAME
lists the
two ip addresses supplied by the DHCP request, and similarly, it shows
the domain
as misconfigured (here's a cut-n-paste from Mark's post, the only
difference is in the
pair of ip address:

$ TCPIP SHOW name


BIND Resolver Parameters


Local domain: * Mismatch *


System


State: Started, Disabled


Transport: UDP
Domain:
Retry: 4
Timeout: 4
Servers: 220.233.0.4, 220.233.0.3
Path: No values defined


Process


State: Disabled


Transport:
Domain:
Retry:
Timeout:
Servers:
Path:



I'm a little desperate at this point. I can't ftp anywhere to download
a browser (Mosaic or CSWB)
because I can't resolve the names. (I can ping the two name server IP
addresses, so I'm pretty
sure I'm getting "out".)

Any helpful advise will be greatly appreciated.

Note: I can't do anything to configure the LINKSYS without a browser,
so I need something
that I can do from the VMS side.

Thanks, Ken
--
Ken Fairfield

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