Thanks to the Following who responded:
bond@cadence.com (Scott Bond)
adap@andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
davec@cs.ust.hk (Dave Curado)
ejw@cyberstore.ca
etnsed!xhaque@uunet.uu.net (Amanul Haque)
Richard Elling <Richard.Elling@eng.auburn.edu>
hushing@gdwest.gd.com (Sumner Hushing)
"Susan Thielen" <thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca>
djiracek@jupiter.fnbc.com (Dan Jiracek)
tyvand@fnbc.com (Ty Van Duong)
Kerien Fitzpatrick <fitz@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu>
Pauline van Winsen - Uniq Professional Services <pauline@uniq.com.au>
Pat Cain (Denver) <pjc@denver.ssds.COM>
No real answer was forthcoming. I received a number of suggestions but I
had not revealed in my original message that I had already tried these.
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> Did you change the broadcast address in the
> /etc/netmasks file? I have seen problems there.
> Also yo did not mention that you changed the
> /etc/hostname.le0 file
I have a Subnetted Class B and my netmasks file contains:
149.135.0.0 255.255.255.0
This is as it should be.
I did not change the hostname so no need.
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> You may need to change entries in DNS
Done this.
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> What *you* need is a very big screwdriver. ;^)
>
> Er, um, having played with solaris for a coupl'a weeks, we threw
> up our hands and got the 4.1.3c cd and having been living happily
> ever after. (hey, when sun stops supporting 4.1.3 -- I read today
> that NT is being ported to the Sparc.)
>
> OK - so how do you change that nasty IP address -- I dunno.
> But I *do* this:
> cd /etc/rc3.d
> grep ip *
> grep Your_IP_address_here *
> grep Your_Hostname_here *
>
> Well, you get the idea...it's gotta be in there.
I had tried doing a reccursive grep fro "149.135" and the hostname from
the root directory to no avail. It is not in any other file in the
filesystem.
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> I once had a similar error of bad address, and it turned out to be a
> misconfigured netmasks file, the file that declares what class of network
> the machine running in. And since your changing the class of your address
> C to B, this could easily be the case. Whatever you do, a reinstall is not
> necessary.
I am not changing from a C to a B. I am changing from one C to another C
within our Class B network.
> On boot up there are about 4 ifconfig lines that execute in the
> /etc/init.d/rootuser file (assuming that 2.2 is the same as 2.3, what I am
> currently running), the first bootup file that is executed and not it is
> /etc/rc2.d. Isolate which one is causing the error with echo statements
> and go from there. It is likely something quite simple. Good luck.
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> I ran into the same problem and was forced to reinstall the OS (due to the
> lack of time) and reinstall NIS+ etc. The machine in question was my server :(
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> You've got a typo in your hosts file. The same thing would happen in 4.1.x.
I had thought of this and modified my hosts file as follows:
#
# Internet host table
#
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost
149.135.28.13 bazille.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au
#149.135.32.11 bazille.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au
149.135.36.13 mondrian.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au
With only one space between the IP Address and the hostname (no TABS etc)
and a comment character so I could enable and disable the relevant line.
This still did not work.
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> I loaded two 2.2 machines on one net, then switched them to another
> using the technique you mentioned, and they did come up and operate. I
> did, however, have to reload them both later, for reasons I perceived
> at the time to be unrelated to the failure you experienced.
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> Make sure you've changed netmask and resolv.conf if it's
> applicable.. The line that's probably giving you
> trouble is
>
> /etc/rc2.d/S72inetsvc:/usr/sbin/ifconfig -au netmask + broadcast +
Yeah I had found it and tried to use manual commands after bootup to kick
things along and all I could get out of it was something like:
le0: flags=863<UP,POINT-TO-POINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 149.135.32.11 -> 149.135.32.11
ether 8:0:20:11:c9:e
Why it chose to make this a point to point link I don't know?
>
> That'll give ya the ifconfig prob...
>
> Solaris ain't so bad!! If I had 5 years experience with
> it, it wouldn't be no different that 4.*!!!
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> You should run the sys-unconfig utility. It looks like the initial install.
Might try this if all else fails.
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> After you change the IP address, halt it ( telinit 0 ), then boot -r to
> reconfigure the machine; I've done it in the past ( 4 months ago ); I think
> this is the way; try and let me know; good luck.
Yeah tried that too.
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> Ifconfig: bad address (in 4.1.3) occurred when the hostname.le0 didn't
> get changed to reflect the new name/IP address. Also, it was possible
> to get these messages if other hostname.le0.* (we use emacs so it would
> print the message for hostname.le0~)
This file only has the hostname in it and I didn't change that.
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> Just for grins, have you tried changing the hostname as well? Maybe there
> is some IP <-> hostname mapping which is causing hassles. (You'll need
> to change /etc/hostname.le0 as well as hosts & defaultrouter.)
Yeah, I might just try this and see what happens.
> boot -r does a reconfig of devices, but I fail to see why the hardware
> would cache an IP address.
>
> /etc/netmasks is ok? is there any info in /etc/ethers?
/etc/ethers is a NIS map and it has an entry for this host but I didn't
change it's name so it shouldn't be a problem.
> other than that, trying running /usr/bin/truss on ifconfig & see if that
> gives you any clues.
>
> BTW, have you read the friendly warning from the ifconfig man page?
>
> Note: It is recommended that the names broadcast, down,
> private, trailers, up, and the other possible option names
> not be selected when choosing host names. Choosing anyone
> of these names as host names will cause bizarre problems
> that can be extremely difficult to diagnose.
Yeah saw this but as the name is "bazille" it shouldn't be a problem
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> /etc/hostname.le*
> /etc/nodename
> /etc/defaultrouter
> /etc/netmasks
>
> those are the files affected by a network change under Solaris 2.x...
Rodney...
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