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Originally Posted by Ebbi
Ebbi thanks a lot for the links. I am getting too much excited about it, and it appears that I am only few clicks away from the internet :-)
I think I understand my problem: my router doesn't supply a usable hostname, so it gets set to “unknown". To get around that, there are 2 methods, as described in the link you gave me
http://www.rite-group.com/rich/solaris_dhcp.html.:
· DHCP has limited control
· DHCP has full control
Number 1:
If I wanted to try method 1 (as I'm not sure if my ISP has a habit of changing DNS name server IP addresses or not, but he/she could be), then there are few things I am not sure about
:
1. I just copy the script and paste on my shell?.
2. Is DEFAULT_ADDR in the script my IP address?. How can I find my own IP address on a laptop not yet connected to Internet?. I remember I was told that IP add while installing Solaris but unfortunately did not write it down.
3. How do I know if I should be using leo0 or hme0 as my INTERFACE?.
Number Two:
Now let us suppose I wanted to try method 2 as well. This seems much easier i think: I just create two files with the TOUCH command?:
a)
> /etc/hostname.le0
b)
> /etc/dhcp.le0
As for the Host unknown, the page says “"Starting with Solaris 10, the preceding paragraph can be ignored. Instead, just make sure that the hostname you want to use is in /etc/nodename”.
I am on Solaris 10, so seems that I do nothing here.
Thank you very much for your time,
Alikun