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"Basil Holloway" <farl7FAKE@bigpond.com> writes:

>On Solaris 9 cannot get
>#nslookup www.sun.com   cannot find server
>#ping www.sun.com    no answer
>to work .
>However using Netscape I can navigate to any page and it seems to work okay.
>Setting up email I can receive email but cannot send. Get a message SNMP 
>authentication failure. Mail settings have been double checked and seem 
>okay.

Is the web browser set to use a proxy server or to go direct to the internet
to fetch pages? Usually Netscape/Firefox won't automatically pick up system
settings for proxies unless it's told to look for a proxy.pac file, but as
far as actually resolving domain names, I don't know if the web browser does
that itself or hands it off to a sub-application.

I tend to try things like 'traceroute 11.12.13.14' which bypasses nameserver
lookups to try and deduce what's going on routing-wise.

>I installed Solaris9 on this box in 2004 and am trying to get the network 
>settings installed, which were not installed on the original installation of 
>Solaris9. Did not feel confortable using sys-unconfig.

That's certainly one way to do it, but it unconfigures everything, which
might not be what you want to happen. 8-)

>/eyc/hosts           127.0.0.1 localhost  ( should loopback be inserted 
>after 127.0.0.1 )

I've never fiddled with any of the 127.0.0.1 entries in the /etc/inet/hosts
file (symlinked to /etc/hosts) and always leave them alone.

>192.168.0.106           ultra2 loghost

>/etc/defaultrouter        192.168.0.1

If that is the IP allocated to whatever piece of hardware is your network
gateway or router (in my case it's a Cisco 2611), that would be ok as it'll
cause a 'default' route to be set up when SunOS 5.9 boots up.  You can check
that it's been done using the 'netstat' command - 'netstat -rn' to display
routing info without DNS resolving, or 'netstat -r' to show hostnames for
IP's that the system knows about.

>/etc/hostname.home0       ultra2

That would need to be 'hostname.hme0' if the machine has one of the 'hme'
10/100 mbps ethernet engines. The earlier systems used 'leo' 10 mbps engines
so on those machines (everything before the Ultra-1 'Enterprise' systems in
the Sparc line), the hostname file is called 'hostname.leo0'.

>Network Domain: (Couldn't Ascertain)

Unless the machine is directly routed out to the Internet you shouldn't need
to set a domain name. If you did, you'd have a 'domain xxxx' entry in the
/etc/resolv.conf file.

Regards,

Craig.
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