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hello hope fine I have installed solaris 8 in my network and also installed NIS+ on it but when the NIS+ server reboot It ping with the IP address but not ping by the name I added the names and ip addresses in the /etc/hosts file but still the error i-e unknown host any suggestion thanx in advance
You do understand that when you chose to run NIS+ your system is consulting NIS+ tables for information and not ascii files. My guess is that you simply added the entry to the /etc/hosts file, but that is not what NIS+ is looking at.
See if the entry is in the table:
# niscat -h hosts.[your NIS+ domain]
if not, add it.
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Response Number 2
Name: solaris65 Date: May 8, 2002 at 18:13:02 Pacific
Reply:
Make sure you have copied the /etc/nsswitch.nisplus file over to the /etc/nsswitch.conf.
This tells you also the order in which it will do it's search (i.e. files, nis, nisplus...)
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