Solaris 9 Discussion - solaris server hostname become unknown

The ip of an interface is defined by /etc/hostname.<interface>, if that file contains a hostname rather than an IP address, the IP address is determined from the /etc/hosts file.

The hostname of the machine (returned by the 'hostname' command and by 'uname') is set from /etc/nodename .

To change the hostname of a running system you could run:

hostname <new hostname>

and then update /etc/nodename .

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mAbrantea at 2007-7-10 14:19:29 >

Like you mentioned, the /etc/hostname contains a hostname and the /etc/hosts contains the ip address.

The hostname was changed by itself without any one manually changing it. is this possible? We did not perform any reboots and the only cron job on the system was to run few hours later.

It was only after we logged in that we found that the hostname was 'unknown'.

However, thanks for the info for changing the hostname. Its should be helpful rather than performing a restart.

implifea at 2007-7-10 14:19:29 >