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Operating Systems Solaris Cannot access Sun 10 using Hostname and sun10 cant reach other hostnames Post 302241322 by isellapples on Monday 29th of September 2008 05:37:41 AM
Old 09-29-2008
hi jlliagre

i wasnt trying to install DNS, as - like you say - its illogical. Its just the line vishwana was going down. The resolv.conf is also configured correctly without question (details are taken from a seperate working Sun 10 machine we have, and are the same as every other machine on our network)

However, i have found the problem - basically, i didn't realise that unix doesnt broadcast the hostname to the network, and as a result our DNS servers wont register it so won't allow it access to the dns services (a security feature). So i just need a way to broadcast the hostname to the network or, failing that, convince IT to manually register the system.

Thanks for your help

Last edited by isellapples; 09-29-2008 at 06:50 AM..
 

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cports(1M)						  System Administration Commands						cports(1M)

NAME
cports - expand host names into <host, server, port> triples SYNOPSIS
$CLUSTER_HOME/bin/cports hostname [hostname...] DESCRIPTION
The cports utility expands the hostname arguments into a list of <host, server, port> triples. The returned information is used to access the serial port consoles of the named hosts by way of the terminal server returned in the triples. If an entry for serialports has been made in the /etc/nisswitch.conf file, then the order of lookups is controlled by that entry. If there is no such file or no such entry, then the nameservice look up order is implicitly nis files. EXAMPLES
Example 1 Using the cports Command If the /etc/serialports file contains the entry: pepsi soda-tc 5002 the following command: % cports pepsi prints the following string: pepsi soda-tc 5002 This information can be used by the telnet(1) command to remotely access pepsi's console: % telnet soda-tc 5002 ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWccon | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
telnet(1), cconsole(1M), ccp(1M), chosts(1M), crlogin(1M), cssh(1M), ctelnet(1M), serialports(4), attributes(5) Sun Cluster 3.2 8 Sep 2007 cports(1M)
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