Well, I actually found the solution before the list did this time.  With
a little packet sniffing with snoop and a PC sniffer too I was able to
see that the client was still trying to address my license server
with the simple non-fully qualified DNS name (ie. 'sunny') even
though I had explicitly spelled out the full name in the license.dat
file.  Very strange.  So what did I do?  I put entries in my NIS for my
Sun client that listed my license servers with both fully qualified DNS
and
non fully-qualified imple name so tht itwould resolve to the IP.  
I thought, and so does everyone else, that changing the license.dat
so that I had fully qualified DNS names (ie. 'sunny.andr.ub.com') was
enough.  Not so. Thanks to all who responded.
Original question:
I'm getting the following error when try'ing to get a license for 
one of my FlexLM licensed tools on my Sun Enterprise 450:
  Error!    ERROR (LM -8): can't find SERVER hostname
              "sunny.andr.ub.com, zapper.andr.ub.com,
              sparky.andr.ub.com" in network database. 
  Feature is VERILOG-XL
I think I'm getting this because I've moved my Sun client to
another DNS domain other than the server.  If I try from a 
client in the same DNS domain as the server all is fine.  Is
there anything that can be done to get the licensing to work
well across domains?
I AM able to ping both server from the client and client from the 
server just fine.
Thanks in advance,
                               Ed
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Ed Sanborn                (978) 691-6496
Northchurch Communications Inc.
5 Corporate Drive
Andover, MA. 01810    Fax (978) 691-6300
http://www.northc.com
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