[geeks] Networking and DNS

[Andrew Weiss]

A quick answer sought from those in the "know".  I am getting back into
Solaris and as such installed Solaris 8 on an extra PC I had lying around
the office.  In the installation it asked what name service I am using.  I
clicked DNS and entered the info... when it got to setting things it told
me my DNS information was wrong... clearly it was not... but I had to
click cancel to get it to ignore and keep going.  (Is this wrong?  is it
looking for some kind of magical NIS enabled DNS... note I did not select
NIS or NIS+ or is it trying to become a secondary DNS server?).  Either
which way mimicing my Linux resolv.conf still gets me no name
resolution... the network works fine, however.

Regards,
Andrew

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8/15/01

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