Re: ticlts, ticots, ticotsord ...

From: Casper *** (Casper.***@Sun.COM)
Date: 08/06/01 

Message-Id: <200108061835.UAA09305@romulus.Holland.Sun.COM>
To: Jan-Philip Velders <jpv@jpv.xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: ticlts, ticots, ticotsord ... 
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 20:35:46 +0200
From: Casper *** <Casper.***@Sun.COM>

>in the midst of a major renumbering operation (3 class C reshuffles,
>and one class C being split into 4 different sized parts...) we
>encountered some problems with a couple of Sun's (Ultra 5, Solaris
>2.6) which failed to start rpcbind at bootup in single user mode.
>
>We traced the problems to the files:
>/etc/net/ticlts/hosts
>/etc/net/ticots/hosts
>/etc/net/ticotsord/hosts
>
>Which are identical and contained hostnames from way back, on
>installation, when hosts had entirely different names, on a
>test-network...

These files are required to contain "`uname -n` `uname -n`"; it's
a requirement for loopback RPC to work correctly.

>Now, we've read the manpages, and kinda deduced that these files are
>used when only a loopback device is available (e.g. Single User
>Mode)... But we're at a loss of when and how these device(s) come into
>the picture and what they precisely do...

No, they're always needed.

Casper