From: David Lucas
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] "Server Name" changes after a few hours
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 23:11:07 -0500
At 10:59 PM 8/8/2002, you wrote:
>From: David Lucas
>Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] "Server Name" changes after a few hours
>Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 22:21:02 -0500
>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?
>
>The machines have different names, but are within the same
>"domain"....one is named ns1, the other ns3.......and it does happen
>to both boxes.....the manual change does not affect what's in th GUI
>as far as I can tell - I even made sure that NO manual changes were
>made to either machines' resolv.conf files after making changes in
>the GIU. Am I correct in assuming that the "Sun Cobalt Server Name"
>should _not_ change?
Mine doesn't and hasn't in 2 years.
I also have never been in the resolv.conf files nor many others.
I also don't run dns on my Raq
I have considered moving dns to another box away from my current servers. Any recommendations on who has good and affordable service?
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