On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, M. Dorcean wrote:
I just installed Solaris 8 (sparc) and cannot connect to the internet. I
verified that in.named is running. I get a weird message in /var/adm/messages
(after the system comes up) saying the following:
Well, this ain't a Solaris list, but what the hell.
guidedog /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 512012 daemon.error] unable to get my IP
address: gethostbyname(guidedog) failed [h_errno: try again(2)]
On solaris, if the machine has a static IP it is obtained by reverse
mapping the hostname. That means you need to have an entry in /etc/hosts
that maps your hostname to your real IP (not 127.0.0.1). The installer
should not have left you in this state; did you change the /etc/hostname*
and/or /etc/hosts files after installing? Is /etc/nsswitch.conf OK?
Alexey
