Erik Nordmark wrote: > Girish M G wrote: > >> Is "not allowing hostnames for create-addr at all" still an option >> for the first phase of 'ipadm'? Can we track this as a RFE and >> implement it later after the project is integrated. > > I don't see a strong requirement for hostnames for dladm. > If we don't have it we'd probably need some support in the conversion > of /etc/hostname* files so that at the time of conversion we do a > getaddrinfo to get the addresses from /etc/hosts,ipnodes. > > Thus the RFE might not even be needed.
Which project is going to convert all of the TPI network configuration files under /etc to also use IP addresses and not hostnames? Or are there no dangers from having the hostname in one of those files not resolve to the same address as is on the network interface(s)? Darren
