From: stimmins@wiley.co.uk
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 03:56:21 EDT
I have question regarding the various files which contain references to a
Solaris box's hostname. The machine is a V880, 2 processors, 4 GB RAM
running Solaris 2.8 and a reasonably upto date patch level.
I have been asked to change the references to the hostname of the machine
to the hostname + fully qualified domain name (i.e. from "myhost" to
"myhost.mydomain") in the following files:
/etc/nodename
/etc/hostname.ce0
/etc/net/ticlts/hosts
/etc/net/ticots/hosts
/etc/net/ticotsord/hosts
As far as I'm aware, and according to all the reference material these
files should contain only the local hostname of the machine. The one time
someone here actually changed these files to contain the fully qualified
domain name it caused all sorts of problems which I was unable to resolve
to my satisfaction without doing a sys-unconfig and rebooting.
So I guess my questions are, is it ok to do this? Are there any problems
associated with doing it? What are the pitfalls to avoid if it is a valid
configuration?
Many thanks for any help in advance
Sean Timmins
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