Configure Solaris for DNS resolution of hostnames
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:
hosts: files
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.











Kaushik said on February 10, 2009
This one works!
Thanks!
safi said on April 17, 2009
worked for me on solaris 10 :) thanks
Khannie said on April 27, 2009
thanks :)
Brian said on August 5, 2009
simple resolution in dns with nsswitch.conf
hosts files dns
Anonymous said on April 21, 2010
still i amnot able to get internet in my server
Toqui said on July 1, 2010
Thanks, very clear!