Gordon Marler wrote: > Trying to segregate an AutoInstall server onto a Zone with an exclusive IP > set up on the onboard igb NIC of an x4270, but not having success. Works > fine on the global zone. > > Running build 123, and have got past the issue of specifying the -s option to > installadm create-service ... (I copied the target directory from the global > zone into the non-global zone's dataset). installadm fails to create the > service, I think because multicast DNS isn't running in the non-global zone. > > Any reason why multicast DNS wouldn't start in a non-global zone?
Is the multicast DNS service running? If not, have you tried just enabling the multicast DNS service before creating your install service in the zone? # svcadm enable network/dns/multicast (This bug exists in the global zone as well. See defect 10888) thanks, -ethan > > I've made sure to copy nsswitch.dns to nsswitch.conf, and have configured > regular DNS and confirmed that it works by NAT'ing a separate VNIC across an > etherstub to the global zone. > > Trying to start mdsnd -debug isn't very helpful - it just start "Starting", > then immediately "Stopping". No clue what's missing there. > > On a related topic, is there a reason you can't "snoop -d /dev/igb1" in the > non-global zone, where igb1 is the NIC dedicated to the zone? > > Gordon
