04-21-2011
Thanks for your response. This is what I see when I run the wget command on my Solaris 10 system. It's linked to a network that has Internet access.
--10:22:21--
Yahoo! Ireland
=> `index.html'
Resolving
www.yahoo.com... failed: node name or service name not known.
How do I configure my Solaris 10 so that it can use wget to communicate to the outside world? Thanks.
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NAME
rdate - set system date from a remote host
SYNOPSIS
rdate hostname
DESCRIPTION
rdate sets the local date and time from the hostname given as an argument. You must have the authorization solaris.system.date on the local
system. Typically, rdate is used in a startup script.
The inetd daemon responds to rdate requests. To enable inetd response, the lines invoking the time command in inetd.conf must not be com-
mented out.
USAGE
The rdate command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWrcmdc |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
inetd(1M), inetd.conf(4), attributes(5), ip6(7P)
SunOS 5.10 15 Feb 2001 rdate(1M)