[Sunhelp] Hostname on Sun5.8

[Magnus Abrante]

This is caused by the DHCP server not being configured with a hostname
for the address which your client gets from it, Solaris box will query
the DHCP server for a hostname, if the server doesn't return anything it
will default to "unknown".

There is a workaround for this, if you make sure you have the hostname you
want in /etc/nodename you can edit the following scripts:
/etc/rcS.d/S30network.sh and /etc/init.d/S72inetsvc, and in those scripts
replace the line
hostname=`sbin/dhcpinfo Hostname`

with
hostname=`cat /etc/nodename`

And you should have your own hostname, even if it only will be known
by your own box, but its still less irretating than "unknown".

        //Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my empolyer */


> I am running  Sun5.8 on a Pentium  Workstation on an NT network with an NT
> DHCP Server. The name "Unknown"  keeps on getting assigned as my hostname.
> The workstation works fine otherwise on the network and can ping other
> workstations and the Internet ok. My /etc/hosts file says "Unknown is
> supplied by DHCP". I have tried modifying etc/hostname.elxl0,
> etc/net/*/hosts and etc/hosts. But the "unknown" name keeps on re-appearing.
> 
> When I run sys-unconfig I am not prompted for hostname and end up
> with"unknown" as the hostname.
> 
> System Information says Network Domain [could not Ascertain]
> Internet Domain is blank
> 
> Do you know what could assign a hostname that sticks?
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