Re: Solaris 9 questions: CDE & networking

Paul Förster wrote:
Hi,

... first of all, I'm quite a Solaris newbie. I'm an Oracle DBA and know basically how to set up a Solaris 8 box so that I can naturally run Oracle on it. So, here are my questions:

I decided to finally increase speed from Sol-8 to Sol-9 on my Blade 150. This machine is attached (via a switch) to my DSL modem/router, a ZyXEL Prestige 650-R.

When I installed Solaris 9, I was offered networking options. I chose to use DHCP and DNS. I supplied the IP addresses of my ISP's DNS servers as requested by the installer and the computer is assigned the name DHCPPC3 from the ZyXEL. I created my user and can telnet/rlogin/ssh to that user from my other computers using the IP address assigned to DHCPPC3. So far, so good. But how can I give it a name it keeps? My Linux and Mac machines will keep their name, no matter what. The Blade always gets the name from the ZyXEL which may change of course and is not the name I want.

Also, I supplied the networking information, but why isn't it able to resolve names? I don't need 100% internet features there, but it would be great if I could for example download the latest jumbo patch directly from Sun onto the Sun.

Last but not least, each an every window has this extremely ugly language bar attachted at the bottom edge. Is there any way to get rid of this thing? This thing alone can be a reason to go back to Solaris 8...

Also, is there a Solaris 9 FAQ around?

Thanks very much in advance.

I "solved" a similar problem by not using DHCP. My router, a Linksys BEFSR81, reserves addresses 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.99 for static assignment. If the router had a full implementation of DHCP, this dodge should not be necessary but Linksys elected to do a bare bones implentation that will not assign a nodename. It's not RFC3131 compliant.

This has not proven to be an ideal solution because my ISP periodically reconfigures its network and changes some or all of the IP addresses. I then have to edit /etc/resolv.conf to have the new DNS Servers.

To solve your name resolution problem, check /etc/resolv.conf. It should look something like this (substitute the proper IP addresses for your ISP).

domain trnrsv01.nj.comcast.net
nameserver 68.87.64.196
nameserver 68.87.75.194
nameserver 68.87.66.196

The "domain" entry is the default string used when you request "hostname" instead of "hostname.mugwump.org".

Check /etc/nsswitch.conf. It should have a line reading:
hosts files, dns
which says to check your /etc/hosts file first and then try DNS. It could have more, or less, but dns should be there if you want to use DNS. It may work with "nis" instead of DNS if you have NIS running.



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