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# 1  
Old 06-15-2009
Solaris ip Change
Hi all

i changed ip of my sunfire V490 machine by using the ifconfig command i modified following files

/etc/hosts
/etc/netmasks
/etc/defaultrouter
/etc/inet/ipnodes

still when i rebooted the server ip got change. can nyone tell me reasonwhy it happens.......
# 2  
Old 06-15-2009
have a look at "/etc/hostname.interfacename"
# 3  
Old 06-15-2009
Hi,

you must edit /etc/hostname.<your_interface>;
there is your hostname, for this hostname the system
will take at boot the ip-number from /etc/inet/hosts.

cu
lowbyte
# 4  
Old 06-15-2009
Thanks for replying

i checked this file also after assigning ip. it was ok
# 5  
Old 06-15-2009
double check "/etc/hosts" for more then one entry with the name in /etc/hostname.interfacename
# 6  
Old 06-15-2009
i didnt check /etc/inet/hosts file....will try with that too....
# 7  
Old 06-15-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by raynu.sharma
i didnt check /etc/inet/hosts file....will try with that too....
/etc/hosts is a link to /etc/inet/hosts...
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