Re: Nodename issue

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Date	2015-04-08 13:41 -0400
From	Gary <nobody@nomail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject	Re: Nodename issue
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Didn't think of that! Good point. For what it's worth I've encountered the
same issue on newer versions of Solaris as well. I'll see if I can find time
to test the change to /etc/default/dhcp on one of my lab boxes.

"Casper H.S. Dik" wrote:

> Michael Moeller <mmoel@t-online.de> writes:
>
> >Perhaps it's important to say the server is a Cisco business router.
> >Afaik it doesn't care about the clients names and I changed them at
> >times without difficulty. Since it worked before the fault is likely
> >to be client sided. None of the other machines names were altered by
> >DHCP.
>
> Is it the name returned by DNS?
>
> I believe you can remove what the DHCP client asks for by
> editing /etc/default/dhcp and drop the hostname (param 12)
>
> But Solaris 2.6 is, of course, a very old release (end of 1997?)
> and a lot of things have changed; I also do not have a Solaris 2.6
> system to check this on.
>
> Casper

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    Re: Nodename issue mmoel <mic1@t-online.de> - 2015-04-07 15:48 +0200
      Re: Nodename issue Gary <nobody@nomail.com> - 2015-04-07 19:05 -0400
        Re: Nodename issue Michael Moeller <mmoel@t-online.de> - 2015-04-08 13:20 +0200
          Re: Nodename issue Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2015-04-08 11:27 +0000
            Re: Nodename issue Michael Moeller <mmoel@t-online.de> - 2015-04-08 14:50 +0200
              Re: Nodename issue Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2015-04-08 13:04 +0000
                Re: Nodename issue Gary <nobody@nomail.com> - 2015-04-08 13:41 -0400
                Re: Nodename issue Michael Moeller <mmoel@t-online.de> - 2015-04-08 20:48 +0200
                Re: Nodename issue Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2015-04-08 21:40 +0000
                Re: Nodename issue Michael Moeller <mmoel@t-online.de> - 2015-04-09 12:24 +0200
                Re: Nodename issue Gary <nobody@nomail.com> - 2015-04-09 06:32 -0400
                Re: Nodename issue Michael Moeller <mmoel@t-online.de> - 2015-04-09 12:43 +0200
                Re: Nodename issue Michael Moeller <mmoel@t-online.de> - 2015-04-09 12:34 +0200
                Re: Nodename issue Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2015-04-09 11:27 +0000
                Re: Nodename issue Michael Moeller <mmoel@t-online.de> - 2015-04-09 14:21 +0200
                Re: Nodename issue Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2015-04-09 12:48 +0000
                Re: Nodename issue Michael Moeller <mmoel@t-online.de> - 2015-04-09 16:13 +0200
              Re: Nodename issue Gary <nobody@nomail.com> - 2015-04-08 13:35 -0400

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