RE: DNS problem on Solaris X86

Jussi Hamalainen wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Mogens Valentin wrote:

> > No matter what I do, it responds with " Unable to find an 
> > address for 'hostname' with the specified DNS configuration.
> > I've specified domainname, IP of DNS and tried with/without search
> > domain.
 
> Are you installing Solaris 8 or Solaris 9? The Solaris 8 installer
> has a major flaw (although Sun call it a "feature"): it doesn't ask
> for a default route out of the segment so you can't make DNS work
> while installing if you don't have a DNS server in your LAN.
> 
> With Solaris 9 you get to configure a default route. However, the
> installer expects to find an A-record matching the hostname and
> domain you entered into the DNS configuration. If it can't query the
> DNS server (ie. no route) or it gets NXDOMAIN, you get an error and
> can't configure DNS while installing.

If the problem is that the DNS server is not on the local subnet, then
it is fairly simple to open up a separate command line and add the
default route by hand during the install process. I usually do this, as
well as going into /a/etc to create the defaultrouter file and ensure
that the hostname is in the hosts file, before I proceed on.

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