Re: [cobalt-users] "Server Name" changes after a few hours

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:46 PM 8/8/2002, you wrote:
> Running 2 Raq4i's, both have up-to-date patches....every few hours or so 
> (I haven't timed it so I can't be sure), the following problem occurs....I 
> go into the server admin control panel, click Control Panel, then Network, 
> and notice that the "Sun Cobalt Server Name" is blank, and what _was_ in 
> this field is now appended to the front of the domain name (in the field 
> "Domain Name"). Oaky, so I make the change.....add "ns1" to "Sun Cobalt 
> Server Name" and change "Domain Name" back to 
> "my-server-domain-name.com"......click Save Changes, and everything is 
> okay....for a while. A few hours later..."Sun Cobalt Server Name" is once 
> again blank, etc, etc..... Is this NORMAL? It doesn't appear so to 
> me...... And not only does this change occur, it apparently writes over 
> the resolv.conf file, thus voiding any changes I may have made manually to 
> that file. Help please....as this causes DNS and SENDMAIL problems between 
> the 2 servers......
> TIA,
> Mike
This is happening on both machines?
You have them both set with the same name?
sure you aren't making a change in your manual changes that effects it?