Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Michael Moeller Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: Nodename issue Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:50:15 +0200 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <552462AC.AD63534C@nomail.com> <552510b1$0$2945$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Z0N9EkMNXC5iTzA0Cxv0hQInqORy7mFEuEfJAMXjLMVDihm2G+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:EGHTElo7fz3wzWVeVOR6pIn/DLY= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: <552510b1$0$2945$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.sun.admin:239 Am 04/08/2015 01:27 PM, schrieb Casper H.S. Dik: > Michael Moeller writes: > >> Some PCs and Macs are connected to this router without any >> problems and until last week it worked with the Sun too. >> Giving the router another IP is no reason for silently renaming >> the Sun. Maybe thats an uninformed assumption but I'd rather >> presume I triggered this behaviour on the client side somehow. >> If I can't figure out whats going on I'll have to try the >> static IP. Thanks. > > This is likely caused because the new nodename is what is define > in DNS. When a system is configured to use DHCP, it likely gets > all information including the hostname from the DHCP server. > > Casper > 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. To come a little closer to a solution let me put it another way: Is it under my control at all (regrading a client on a Sun Sparc, Sol 2.6) whether the server overrides the clients hostname or not? And if so, whats the right course of action in the respective case? I didn't find something useful in the documentation, so far. Michael