SUMMARY: ifconfig -- what's going on?

From: Jim Hall (jhall@piper.hamline.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 15 1995 - 13:40:04 CDT


IF YOU MISSED THE ORIGINAL POST:

I recently tried to demonstrate to my boss how easy it was to
reconfigure a Solaris box, but when the machine was rebooting, it gave
the message: "ifconfig: bad address".

SOLUTION:
I'm a dummy! The solution to my "ifconfig: bad address" problem was
trivial, with a cause that was easy to trace.

We don't have NIS yet (working towards that!) so last week when I
synchronized all the /etc/hosts files, I accidentally copied a "hosts"
that didn't have this SPARC 2 in it over the SPARC 2's "hosts".
Result, when ifconfig starts up at boot-time, one of the things it
checks is /etc/hosts for its own ip address.

Oops. The solution was to put the SPARC 2's ip address back in
/etc/hosts.

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James Hall, systems administrator                   || phone: 612-934-0900
email: jhall@datamap.mn.org                         || fax: 612-934-8727
Vista Information Solutions                         || 7525 Mitchell Road
(formerly DataMap)                                  || Eden Prairie, MN 55344
--
James Hall, systems administrator                   || phone: 612-934-0900
email: jhall@datamap.mn.org                         || fax: 612-934-8727
Vista Information Solutions                         || 7525 Mitchell Road
(formerly DataMap)                                  || Eden Prairie, MN 55344



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