[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

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



-----Original Message-----
From: David Lucas
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 8/8/02 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] "Server Name" changes after a few hours

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?

----------------------

Did you set the -dontmorph option? (;-D)