Jeff Victor wrote: > The question "if I am in a non-global zone, how do I know what the hostname > of > the global zone is" has been asked before on this alias. I will summarize > the > answers that I remember. > > By default - and by design - a method does not exist. > > The global zone administrator can make it possible for non-global zone users > to discover the hostname of the global zone. For example, the global zone > administrator could put the global zone's hostname into a file which is > accessible by non-global zone users. > > However, the hostname of the global zone can change, or the non-global zone > could be moved to a different computer. In those situations, the global zone > must update the contents of that shared file.
Indeed a maintenance burden. That is why mounting the global zone's /etc/nodename using a read-only LOFS mount on /etc/chassis[1] in the non-global zone is the best way to do this IMHO. It automatically changes whenever the nodename of the global zone changes, whether it is because the name of the global zone is modified or because the zone is moved to another physical host using zoneadm detach/attach. Just add this to your zone config: # zonecfg -z aap zonecfg:aap> add fs zonecfg:aap:fs> set dir=/etc/chassis zonecfg:aap:fs> set special=/etc/nodename zonecfg:aap:fs> set type=lofs zonecfg:aap:fs> add options ro zonecfg:aap:fs> end Menno [1] or some other name, /etc/chassis is just the name I chose when devising this solution (specifically for zone migration across systems). -- Menno Lageman - Sun Microsystems - http://blogs.sun.com/menno _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
