RE: DNS problem on Solaris X86

From: Devin Ganger (DevinG_at_3sharp.com)
Date: 06/14/04

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    Jussi Hamalainen wrote:

    > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Mogens Valentin wrote:

    > > No matter what I do, it responds with " Unable to find an
    > > address for 'hostname' with the specified DNS configuration.
    > > I've specified domainname, IP of DNS and tried with/without search
    > > domain.
     
    > Are you installing Solaris 8 or Solaris 9? The Solaris 8 installer
    > has a major flaw (although Sun call it a "feature"): it doesn't ask
    > for a default route out of the segment so you can't make DNS work
    > while installing if you don't have a DNS server in your LAN.
    >
    > With Solaris 9 you get to configure a default route. However, the
    > installer expects to find an A-record matching the hostname and
    > domain you entered into the DNS configuration. If it can't query the
    > DNS server (ie. no route) or it gets NXDOMAIN, you get an error and
    > can't configure DNS while installing.

    If the problem is that the DNS server is not on the local subnet, then
    it is fairly simple to open up a separate command line and add the
    default route by hand during the install process. I usually do this, as
    well as going into /a/etc to create the defaultrouter file and ensure
    that the hostname is in the hosts file, before I proceed on. 

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