Re: hostname config question

From: JSimth (jsmith_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:49:11 -0500

Take a look at /etc/netsvc.conf - you should be able to specify the lookup
order (ie - hosts=local,bind)

"TomK" <namffuak@NO.skyenet.SPAM.net> wrote in message
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> My systems use the unqualified host name as 'hostname' -- so the
> 'hostname' command returns 'box' and not 'box.foo.com'. I don't remember
> WHY I set them up this way - IIRC, it was SAP, HACMP, or PSSP on the SP
> frame that required hostname be the 'shortname' AND eight or fewer
> characters (this was lat '96, early '97, AIX 4.1, SAP/R3 3.6, HACMP 2.1,
> and God only knows which HACMP version).
>
> We're now trying to install some awfull java-based functionality for SAP
> and it fails -- can't connect to 'box'. If we change to a fully qualified
> hostname, it seems to work. It looks like it does a lookup on 'box', gets
> 1.2.3.4, does a reverse on 1.2.3.4 and gets 'box.foo.com' and says this
> isn't 'box'.
>
> I can't seem to find a reference to 'shortname' anywhere, and I'm
> wondering how big a can of worms we'll need to re-can if we start changing
> the hostname across our production landscape.
>
> What am I missing here? Am I between the proverbial rock and hard place?
>
> We're on AIX 5.1 ML 4, HACMP/ES 4.5.1, SAP 4.6, and no longer an SP
> environment.
>
> Oh, and for what it's worth, SAP indicates that hostname needs to be fully
> qualified . . .
>
> Tom

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