If you persist in using /etc/inet/hosts, that is exactly what you're going to need to do. In the 80's we used to download a hosts file from the NIC. It had an entry for every internet connected host and it was huge. This is why DNS was invented.

You should be adding each host and ip address to a dns server. Then you should be using dns to find them.

I can't tell if you're not using dns at all, or if you're putting in the forward entry but leaving the reverse entry out. But for the second time I will say that you to be sure that you can use the nslookup command on the IP address:
nslookup 1.2.3.4
or whatever your IP address is.

Hi

My DNS server IP is 100.800.900.100 and the Domain is xyz .

My Sun Servers IP is 100.800.900.101 and the name is abc .

I have configured the DNS server in Sun m/c as 100.800.900.100 .

Xcuted the following :

#nslookup - Server : xyz . Address : 100.800.900.100 .

#nslookup 100.800.900.101 and it identified 100.800.900.100 and return the name as abc .

#nslookup abc and it identified 100.800.900.100 and return the IP as name as 100.800.900.101 .

#nslookup <IP win 2K workstation> and it identified 100.800.900.100 but gives “xyz cannot find < IP win 2K workstation> . Server failed .

When I executed ipconfig /all in win 2K workstation , the DNS server showed
as 100.800.900.100 .

Telnet still slower !!!

Cheers

You need a recognized top level domain. You can't have xyz. It's need to be xyz.com or something. And then it needs to be registered with the .com servers.

That nslookup where you get "server failed" is doing exactly what telnetd is doing. That is what you need to get working.