Ethan, 

thank you. I misinterpreted the part about serving older images thinking 
I was golden.  

"However, to serve an older image, one must only serve on a single subnet"

- Tom 


On Friday, 14 January 2011 at 12:26, Ethan Quach wrote:

>    Tom,
>    On 01/14/11 11:43, Tom Warner wrote:
> 
> Hello Caiman-discuss,
> 
>   idn_decode failed (9): `System iconv failed'
>   Resolving labtech-mpk-ai4... failed: node name or service name not known.
>   wget: unable to resolve host address
> 
> SPARC installs fail unless I change the hostname to an IP in the client's
> wanboot.conf file.
> 
> Was this an intended change in later version of installadm?
> 
>    This was part of the changes to support multi-homed AI servers.  By
>    default, if your server has multiple interfaces (vboxnet0 counts),
>    installadm will put the server's hostname in wanboot.conf, and the
>    client will resolve it to the right address at its boot time.  However,
>    due to bug 7011720, the client isn't able to update its hosts file and
>    hence fails to resolve the hostname.  (This bug will be fixed in the
>    158 images.)
> 
> Is there a configuration I can change?
> 
>    Yes, you can configure your AI server such that it only serves off of
>    one network.  With this setting, installadm will put the server's IP
>    address for that configured network in wanboot.conf and things should
>    work as before.  The full flag day for this can  be found here:
>    [1]http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/Multi-homed+AI+se
>    rver+support
>    basically what you'd need to do is to set the property in the
>    [2]svc:/system/install/server:default service to only serve one
>    network.  e.g (fill in your IP and netmask info):
>       svccfg -s [3]svc:/system/install/server:default setprop
>    all_services/networks =
>    192.168.1.1/24
>    Then recreate your install service (or re-run the create-client command
>    for the needed clients)
>    -ethan
> 
> My server built on 151a create the wanboot.conf with and IP
> and I don't have a problems.
> 
> Thanks, Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 
> # pkg info installadm
>           Name: install/installadm
>        Summary: installadm utility
>    Description: Automatic Installation Server Setup Tools
>       Category: System/Administration and Configuration
>          State: Installed
>      Publisher: solaris
>        Version: 0.5.11
>  Build Release: 5.11
>         Branch: 0.156
> Packaging Date: Thu Dec 30 22:17:35 2010
>           Size: 575.89 kB
>           FMRI:
> [4]pkg://solaris/install/[email protected],5.11-0.156:20101230T221735Z
> #
> 
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> References
> 
>    1. 
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/Multi-homed+AI+server+support
>    2. svc:/system/install/server:default
>    3. svc:/system/install/server:default
>    4. 
> mailto:pkg://solaris/install/[email protected],5.11-0.156:20101230T221735Z
>    5. mailto:[email protected]
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