[SunHELP] newbie unclear on post installation steps of solaris 8 on ultra sparc...

[Jeffrey Nonken]

I also discovered, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth and some help
from
a friend, that it's also not a bad idea to have /etc/defaultrouter set to
your
default gateway.

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:51:04 -0600, <TomST at netins.com> wrote:

> Looks like you are trying to set up your Solaris 8 box as a DNS client.
The
> files that you will need to make/configure are the /etc/resolv.conf and the
> /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
> sample /etc/resolv.conf
> domain somedomain.com
> nameserver ipaddressofmydnsserver
> nameserver ipaddressofmybackupdnsserver
>
> in the /etc/nsswitch.conf change the line that reads
> hosts: files
> to read
> hosts: files dns
>

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Actually, I'm a native in a country full of foriegners.