RE: DNS problem on Solaris X86

Devin, how can I open another terminal window during the install process 
to do this?

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Devin Ganger wrote:

> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:20:46 -0700
> From: Devin Ganger <[email protected]>
> To: focus-sun <[email protected]>
> Subject: 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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