Judy,
Is you NetView machine using your /etc/hosts file?? If you have done all
the necessary name-to-address changes and deleted from NetView and they
STILL come back with the old hostnames, perhpas your NetView system is
actually using DNS or NIS? Check the /etc/netsvc.conf file (for AIX,
/etc/nsswitch.conf for Solaris) to see what order your name-to-address
resolution mechanisms are used (if you haven't got this file - don't
worry). Then check whether you have a /etc/resolv.conf - if you have, you
will use DNS rather than /etc/hosts unless your netsvc says otherwise.
Cheers, Jane
Judy Stobby wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having some host name discrepancies with two nodes that the router
> people decided to swap ip addresses. One node is the IBM 8265, which
> now has the ip address of our used to be default gateway router. The
> ethernet lec on the 8265 is now the default gateway. The old gateway
> router, is now just a router, with the same host name on the token ring
> side of the network. I changed the default gateway and I have swapped
> the ip addresses in the /etc/hosts file, but the 8265 shows up with the
> old gateway router host name. If I do object display info, I get all
> the correct information regarding the 8265. I have deleted the nodes,
> but the 8265 always appears with the old host name, not the one in the
> /etc/hosts file.
> When I try to explain this to the router folks, they tell me that
> netview is stupid, but I know better. Does anyone have an idea of what
> the problem is?
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