Years ago when, I was first learning Solaris, I figured out that you could put an IP address in hostname.XXX, and that would set that interface's IP address.
Soon enough, I found out that the "correct" way to set an interface's IP address was to put a hostname in the hostname.XXX file, and put the actual IP in /etc/hosts I bring this up because I have recently noticed that during network-discuss dicussions some senior sun networking folks, have given "echo aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa > hostname.xxx" as a valid method of setting a host's IP address. What is the deal? Is the ipaddress > hostnamefile a valid method? -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
