NO solution:. BUT. (and thanks, to ...in part..( Hichael Morton,Mike Demarco and a few others) Who all essentially said that Suns don't like WIN-NT based DHCP for getting names. (Quote: if your dhcp server is a windows machine, the hostname for a Solaris machine will be "unknown". ) However, that part seems to have worked. Very interesting. My DHCP commands did SOMETHING. I went from a nslookup on mitchb of not found, to finding my workstation name in the DNS listing-a day after having the commands on the system. (guessing that it was the changes to these 3 files: ---- /etc/default/dhcpagent /etc/hostname.hme0 /etc/nodename ---- that did it. NOW, (still, whenever I reboot, the Sun (Sparc 2.8) still comes up as system unknown, even though the DNS can identify it. Ideas? Suggestions? Thanks in advance again. And thanks to bill, and all the other geeks that keep this list fast/efficient, and in business. thanks again! -----Original Message----- From: Bruntel, Mitchell L, ALABS Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 3:48 PM To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: Q on DHCP/DNS conflict OH. OK. I feel stupid now. I want my workstation to use a DHCP address. BUT (yes I tried the archives, specifically a 9/28/2002 message that agreed with what I tried.) According to official documentation at sun, one should use the /usr/sbin/sys-unconfig utility, which asks all the questions after the reboot. HOWEVER. using a DHCP address from the corporate server gets me a unchangeable entry. It would seem that dhcpagent is the way to go, but trying to set up the -f -v (foreground, verbose) options don't do anything, as they can't find a server. AND/but it seems that /etc/default/dhcpagent can contain the option REQUEST HOSTNAME. It seems to me that this is the only way I would be able to provide my hostname (which still comes up as unknown) into DNS. I can't seem to get this option to work. I entered : REQUEST_HOSTNAME=yes into /etc/default/dhcpagent, but that didn't do it either). (I also tried to put the following into the other 2 files discussed: /etc/hostname.hme0 contains inet and mitchb (desired name) and /etc/nodename contains mitchb Can someone point me to what I'm doing wrong? or a better way? thanks in advance! Mitch B. Thanks again in for this great list. I do try and respond when I _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Oct 29 07:49:30 2003
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