[HECnet] DECnet for Linux

On a virtual machine with lubuntu 12.04, kernel 3.2.0, I have DECnet for Linux V.2.5.68s working, with dnprogs version 2.65. It is node RULLFL. The daemons and utilities use decnet.conf with node information, so something useful would be to create it from mim::nodenames.dat. On a VAX, TYPEing it works well, but on the Linux machine, dntype hangs after giving parts of the file; dndir mim:: works well. Does anyone have dntype mim::nodenames.dat working properly (with perhaps different versions of the above)? Thanks!