Configure Solaris for DNS Resolution of Hostnames
Posted by Quinn McHenry in Solaris system administration
Solaris provides extensive control over the means of looking up various name services, including DNS. If DNS resolution of hostnames has not been setup, the nsswitch.conf file must be configured in addition to resolv.conf.
Once you have configured the DNS client settings in Solaris, you need to alter the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. This name services configuration file controls a variety of lookup types with several services including NIS/NIS+ and LDAP.
To configure your host to perform hostname lookups with DNS, modify the line that starts with hosts: to include the keyword dns. For example, if your /etc/nsswitch.conf file hosts line looks like the following:
hosts: files
then change it to read:
hosts: files dns
The order of keywords on this line indicates the order in which Solaris references the name services. The keyword files represents the /etc/hosts file.
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February 10, 2009 at 4:59 pm, Kaushik said:
This one works!
Thanks!
April 17, 2009 at 6:45 am, safi said:
worked for me on solaris 10
thanks
April 27, 2009 at 4:04 pm, Khannie said:
thanks
August 05, 2009 at 5:56 pm, Brian said:
simple resolution in dns with nsswitch.conf
hosts files dns
April 21, 2010 at 10:07 am, Anonymous said:
still i amnot able to get internet in my server
July 01, 2010 at 3:51 pm, Toqui said:
Thanks, very clear!