[SPARCbook] changing domains/IP-addresses on the fly

[Jonathan Eisch]

Just looking through my archives, and I found this message.  could you
send me a copy of your scripts?

-Jonathan

Rainer Canavan wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 11:35:30AM -0500, Mark G. Thomas wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I'd like to change the IP-address and the domainname of my sparcbook
> 
> > If you want the changed hostname and IP address to work immediately,
> > you will need to not only change the files but also use `ifconfig` to change
> > the interface IP and netmask, use `route` to add and/or remove routes for
> > your new default route, and use `hostname` to change the hostame of the
> > machine.
> 
> I'm already doing this in my script. The problem is that obviously some
> daemon(?) remembers the old settings and writes them to /etc/hosts, for
> example, breaking those.
> 
> > You will still run into problems with services like NFS and printing with
> > daemons that are still running from boot-up, but could probably
> > just use the existing rc scripts in /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc3.d to stop
> > and start certain services, after changing the hostname.
> 
> ... sendmail was the most important one. My script already does this.
> 
> > I frequently plug my SPARCBook into various client networks, and just
> > ifconfig a new address, and add or remove routes as needed, but I'm not
> > using NFS, printing, or other services that would have broken with these
> > kinds of changes.  I also don't typically bother changing the files, since
> > I'm only wanting to use the new address and routes for the visit.
> 
> actually it would be ok to have the settings 'only for the visit', but i do
> need sendmail, dns and others working, which may require the files to be
> changed.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I'm very happy with 2.6 on the SPARCBook, just had to get used to not having
> > the NCE gui, though frankly I was never that thrilled with NCE anyway.
> 
> hmmm... I think I'm going to have to get myself some 2.6 media...
> 
> >
> > Mark
> 
> Rainer
> 
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