Hi Bharat,
    ifconfig -a will give the IP address which is plumbed on the 
interface. It can be different from your hostname when you have got an 
IP using DHCP.

Madhu

Bharat Medasani wrote:
> Hi,
> I am able to access net from solaris but unable to access the machine using 
> machine name  from network. I am on university network with dhcp and 
>
> [b][u]Output from hostname | nslookup:[/u][/b]
>   
>> Server:               128.123.3.5
>>     
> Address:        128.123.3.5#53
>
> Name:   bharat1.nmsu.edu
> Address: 128.123.180.200
>
> [b][u]Output from ifconfig[/u] -a[/b]
>
> lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 
> index 1
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 
> nge0: flags=201004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 
> index 2
>         inet 128.123.180.79 netmask fffffe00 broadcast 128.123.181.255
>         ether 0:15:f2:ce:9f:71
>  
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