Solairs TCP/IP Networking

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:16:57 +0000, makhali wrote:

> Thanks for all the replies.....Really appreciate it....
> Let me know if what I inferred is right...
> If I have a DNS server setup on my sun box and made an entry like
> hostname ipaddress...Then I should be able to ping hostname from
> other pc in the same network ..will this work?

Setting up a DNS server is a nontrivial exercise, but if you do succeed
and direct your Windows host to use that DNS server then yes.

Unless you plan to have literally dozens of machines on your network then
populating the hosts files is still the best way to resolve names and
addresses.

makhalid-at-gmail.com wrote:
> On Jun 28, 11:19 pm, Dave Uhring wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:05:44 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>>Dave Uhring wrote:
>>>
>>>>I was commenting on a previous statement from the OP:
>>>
>>>>"Thanks for the reply....I donot want to edit the Windows Host
>>>>file...becuase if I want to connect to the Sun box from other network..
>>>>(WAN), I cannot do that right...so thought if I had a hostname, I can
>>>>connect to the hostname even from WAN ..from a different PC."
>>>
>>>The OP seems to be more than a little confused about hostnames and
>>>connecting to other systems over the network. A hostname is not a piece
>>>of magic, it's just a name that you use to look up the the IP "phone
>>>number" using either DNS or the hosts file. If he wants to connect by
>>>name from a Windows box, an IP - hostname equivalence in the hosts file
>>>is the way to go. Of course he could also register the Solaris system
>>>in a DNS server but I don't want to even think about explaining that to
>>>anyone at his level.
>>
>>Bigadmin has a feature article on DNS which is fairly accurate. The only
>>obvious error is the author's wanting to use ndc on a BIND-9 server.
>>
>>http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features...s.html?biga=15
>>
>>But that won't much help the OP in gaining access to the Solaris host from
>>the "WAN" - perhaps he means the Internet. I'm sure that his router's
>>DHCP server is allocating RFC1918 addresses and it's likely that the
>>router does not have a redirect capability.- Hide quoted text -
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>
> Thanks for all the replies.....Really appreciate it....
> Let me know if what I inferred is right...
> If I have a DNS server setup on my sun box and made an entry like
> hostname ipaddress...Then I should be able to ping hostname from
> other pc in the same network ..will this work?
>

Only if you configure EACH PC to use your Sun box as a DNS server. If
you need to ask, you have a lot of reading to do! I highly recommend
the current edition of "DNS and Bind" published by O'Reilly & Associates
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns5/. Configuring the PC's is fairly
easy if you use DHCP. If you don't already use DHCP, that's another
server you have to configure and a lot more reading to do.

The last time I set up a DNS server I was fighting, in addition to my
own ignorance, software that didn't work very well and documentation
that failed to tell me what I needed to know and was just plain wrong in
places. This was thirteen years ago so your mileage may vary!

RFC-1032, 1033, 1034, 1035 and 1183 or their successors should also make
interesting reading.