SUMMARY: Sunos 4 name resolution problems

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org [mailto:sunmanagers-
> bounces@sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Ray Pengelly
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:41 AM
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject: Sunos 4 name resolution problems
> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> 
> 
> We have an ancient sparc station 2 running sunOS 4.13. It uses NIS for
> name
> resolution. The master is a machine running nis+ in compatibility mode. I
> had to move both of these machines over to a new subnet and have
> successfully brought up the nisplus machine. I made sure to uncomment the
> emulation line in nscd.conf.
> 
> 
> 
> I have the sunos 4.13 client authenticating users to the master via nis.
> There are some weird things going on that no amount of googling seems to
> answer. Here's the behaviour.
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> /etc/hosts looks fine.
> 
> 192.168.0.2 server.mydomain.com server
> 
> 192.168.0.3 fileserver.mydomain.com fileserver
> 
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> 
> ping from client to server works using FQDN (ie server.mydomain.com)
> 
> ping from client to server does not work using alias. (ie server)
> 
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> Ping from client to fileserver works using FQDN (ie
> fileserver.mydomain.com)
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> Ping from client to fileserver works using alias (ie fileserver)
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> All are on the same subnet.
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> 
> I know Solaris well and know how to change nsswitch.conf to debug these
> sort
> of problems but I'm a little green with SunOS 4.13. Anyone got ideas of
> how
> to fix this?
> 

I checked the nis+ hosts database and found when the new IP for the hosts
were added the aliases were forgotten. I added the aliases and it now
addresses the master properly via the short alias. However I thought it
should check the hosts file first.

Ray
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