Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 05:32:26 -0500 Message-ID: <55265533.268AE0FA@nomail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 06:32:19 -0400 From: Gary X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: Nodename issue References: <552462AC.AD63534C@nomail.com> <552510b1$0$2945$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <55252745$0$2854$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <55256831.609DB804@nomail.com> <5525a03d$0$2894$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 53 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-PXYZbCmYmCYjq49qvWs5mvmf76ZNJRbFVOo9+4Hu2btbO9co1st5Pnrd8MlHevgC2V7GANoAFFi5Y1b!aqnxwgiHwt93FfP1mD/4Uulx8/hDOROz0i3pTkiJrlp6aCSq2/XG5w== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3370 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.sun.admin:246 Is it possible that this is a different DHCP server you're dealing with now? Michael Moeller wrote: > Am 04/08/2015 11:40 PM, schrieb Casper H.S. Dik: > > Michael Moeller writes: > > > >> /etc/default/dhcp is called /etc/dhcp/dhcptags on Solais 2.6. > >> Param 12 deals with the hostname, though. There are some remarks > >> which strongly discourage messing around with the settings. > > > > If you don't want to receive a hostname, you should not ask > > for it. > > > > Understood. Makes sense. > > >> Why it worked before I assigned a new address to the router still > >> is the big question. > > > > I'm not sure exactly what you did before? > > > > Thats easy, because I wrote it down back then. > I set up Solaris 2.6, put the empty files hostname.le0 and dhcp.le0 > in /etc, default router IP goes to /etc/defaultrouter and the ISPs > addresses in /etc/resolv.conf. After reboot I've got DHCP running with > the real hostname like any of the PCs and Macs with a recent OS. > > By default at setup Sol 2.6 asks for a hostname and a static IP. > These were used by the router as entries for its DHCP table. After > changing the routers IP, it's not working any more. > > >> Could it be DHCP behaves different on a subnet router compared to > >> one running PPPoE at the WAN side? Newer machines can handle this > >> while the Sun can't? > > > > Please dump the DHCP packet and see what it contains; if it > > contains a hostname, Sun will use it because is wants to > > use. > > Ok, I'll try this with another Sparc. > Meanwhile I gave it a static IP, so work continues. I'd like > to understand what's going on, though. > > > You are complaining that an 18 year old OS isn't as capable > > as a more modern OS? Really? > > Yes, because it worked before I changed the routers IP there > must be a way to accomplish this. > > Michael