I came across this issue on my newly built Solaris 10 server. I was able to ping a remote machine by Ip address, but not by its hostname. This indicated that I had the correct route and gateway. Using nslookup and dig I verified that the DNS servers were resolving the hostname to IP...
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Archive for November, 2010
Nslookup resolves address but ping is unable to resolve hostname on Unix server
How to map to a remote NFS directory from a VMware ESX 4 server.
I ran into this error while trying to mount a NFS directory on a remote server from my Vmware ESX4 server. My Vmware esx server is called esx4-server and the remote NFS server is called remote-server. I executed the mount commant and got the below error. # mount -t nfs remote-server:/home/andrew/mnt mount.nfs: Input/output...
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Sun Sparc commands to power on and boot up the server.
Booting up the Sun Sparc M3000 server. After logging into the XSCF console, power on the server. XSCF> poweron -d 0 DomainIDs to power on:00 Continue? :y Switch to the server console. XSCF> console -d 0 Connect to DomainID 0? :y Devalias will list all devices which can be booted. {0} ok devalias...
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