[SunHELP] no hostname (unknown)

Andrew Vendryes sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Jul 17 20:10:44 CDT 2001


Look at "hostname.[interface]" eg. hostname.hme0

Also do a "man sys-unconfig" and check the list of files.

HTH,

-- 
Andrew


At 01:55 PM 2001-07-17 -0700, J P wrote:
>actually), now the box hostname is unknown.....  How
>do I fix this?  It is getting an ip by DHCP, and i
>entered the name in /etc/hosts, and /etc/net/ti* (all
>the hosts files below those directories) and still no
>hostname.  What am I missing?  Have I not "turned"
>something on?  Do I HAVE to point to a dns server?
>




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