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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Network Woes!! Please help! :confused: Post 84163 by Unbeliever on Thursday 22nd of September 2005 06:35:26 AM
Old 09-22-2005
A little hard to know whats going on without a bit more information. Such as what the configuration files were changed from and to.

I general though, for solaris, you need to check the following.

1) /etc/hostname.<id>

where <id> is the identifier for the ethernet card in the machine. There will be one of these files for each physical and logical interface defined on your system (so probably only 1 file in your case). It should contain the hostname (without domain name) of your machine.

2) /etc/hosts

should contain a line (or lines) which match the host names from the file(s) in point 1. The format of each line would (in its simplest form) be

<ip address> <hostname>


3) If you are using any other subnet mask other than a standard class A B or C the mask for the particular network needs to be present in /etc/netmasks

4) /etc/defaultrouter

should contain the IP address of your default router.

5) /etc/defaultdomain

should contain your domain name

6) There are several other files where information on the hostname and ip address are stored they are mostly not hand edited. If your machine has had its ip address only partially changed then it may well be easier to run the 'sysunconfig' command, reboot and answer all the relevant questions on boot up. I would *NOT* however suggest you do this without an experienced admin present.
 

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sys-unconfig(1M)					  System Administration Commands					  sys-unconfig(1M)

NAME
sys-unconfig - undo a system's configuration SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/sys-unconfig DESCRIPTION
The sys-unconfig command is used to restore a system's configuration to an "as-manufactured" state, ready to be reconfigured again. The system's configuration consists of hostname, Network Information Service (NIS) domain name, timezone, IP address, IP subnet mask, and root password. This operation is the inverse of those performed by the sysidnet(1M), sysidns(1M), and sysidsys(1M) programs run at boot. See sysidtool(1M). sys-unconfig does the following: o Saves current /etc/inet/hosts file information in /etc/inet/hosts.saved. o If the current /etc/vfstab file contains NFS mount entries, saves the /etc/vfstab file to /etc/vfstab.orig. o Restores the default /etc/inet/hosts file. o Removes the default hostname in /etc/hostname.interface files for all interfaces configured when this command is run. To determine which interfaces are configured, run the command 'ifconfig-a'. The /etc/hostname.interface files corresponding to all of the inter- faces listed in the resulting output, with the exception of the loopback interface (lo0), will be removed. o Removes the default domainname in /etc/defaultdomain. o Restores the timezone to PST8PDT in /etc/TIMEZONE. o Disables the Network Information Service (NIS) and Network Information Service Plus (NIS+) if either NIS or NIS+ was configured. o Removes the file /etc/inet/netmasks. o Removes the file /etc/defaultrouter. o Removes the password set for root in /etc/shadow. o Removes the file /etc/.rootkey. o Executes all system configuration applications. These applications are defined by prior executions of a sysidconfig -a application. (See sysidconfig(1M)). When sys-unconfig is run, all system configuration applications are passed one argument, -u. o Removes the file /etc/resolv.conf. o Disables LDAP by removing /var/ldap/ldap_client_cache, /var/ldap/ldap_client_file, /var/ldap/ldap_client_cred, and /var/ldap/cachemgr.log. o Regenerates keys for sshd(1M). When sys-unconfig is finished, it performs a system shutdown. sys-unconfig is a potentially dangerous utility and can only be run by the super user. FILES
/etc/default/init process control initialization /etc/defaultdomain /etc/defaultrouter /etc/hostname.interface /etc/inet/hosts host name database /etc/inet/netmasks network mask database /etc/nodename /etc/.rootkey super-user's secret key /etc/shadow shadow password file /etc/vfstab virtual file system table /var/nis/NIS_COLD_START /var/yp/binding/*/ypservers ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWadmap | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
init(1M), kdmconfig(1M), sshd(1M), sysidconfig(1M), sysidtool(1M), hosts(4), netmasks(4), shadow(4), attributes(5) NOTES
sys-unconfig is not available on diskless clients. SunOS 5.10 4 Jun 2004 sys-unconfig(1M)
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