Configure Solaris for DNS resolution of hostnames

Contributor Icon Contributed by qmchenry Date Icon September 29, 2003  
Tag Icon Tagged: 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:

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.

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  • alto
    Solution worked for me... thanks
  • power
    It's greath! thank you!
  • Kaushik
    This one works!

    Thanks!
  • safi
    worked for me on solaris 10 :) thanks
  • Khannie
    thanks :)
  • simple resolution in dns with nsswitch.conf

    hosts files dns
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