{"id":51,"date":"2007-06-10T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sp2hari.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2020-06-20T08:54:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T08:54:34","slug":"internet-from-solaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/10\/internet-from-solaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet from solaris …"},"content":{"rendered":"

DNS makes our life real easy. Without that, i don’t think people will say check out http:\/\/google.com but check out http:\/\/64.233.187.99. I realized how important DNS is to us and without DNS how one can go mad.<\/p>\n

I installed Solaris (Neveda ) two weeks back and it was good. \ud83d\ude42 . Though i was a bit scared in the initial stages, i didn’t find much difference between Linux and Solaris as far as LDTP is concerned. Anyway i had Emily Chen<\/a> from Sun China (my Soc Mentor ) to help me with the issues and many thanks to her, she was always willing to help me in any issue. In fact almost all her mails had something saying
\n” I am on Gtalk almost every workday, feel free to ping me when you have problems. ” or something similar to that \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

But there was one issue which really troubled me in Solaris and that was DNS wasn’t working. Instead of typing http:\/\/www.google.com, i had to type http:\/\/64.233.187.99\/ \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I had a huge list of servers which i might use and their ip’s . (Many thanks to dnsstuff.com). I was getting more and more frust typing IP’s instead of url’s and browsing only the cached page instead of the actual pages. I tried many a things and even Emily also helped me with few tips and tricks. But things never worked. I was really getting irritated as this was delaying my progress in SOC.<\/p>\n

Determined to solve the issue somehow, i started trying all the options in the Network Settings. One strange thing i noted is that, whenever i add a DNS server and close it, next time i open Network Settings, the entries won’t be there. Simply disappeared from there :-(.<\/p>\n

I noticed an option called Location in the Network Settings. It was empty and i wasn’t sure whether i have seen anything like this in Linux.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nNot sure of what to do with that Location, i gave “home” there. I wasn’t sure whether this will solve my problem, but no harm in trying. But once i restarted network, www.google.com worked.
\nYES. IT WORKED. IT WORKED .IT WORKED. IT WORKED .IT WORKED. IT WORKED<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I am pretty sure anyone who had seen me at that time would have thought that i am mad. Even i wont blame them . I accept, suddenly jumping out of the chair and shouting “IT WORKED” at 3 in the morning is quite odd. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Anyways, now that things have started working, will be saying my “Hello World” to tinderbox soon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DNS makes our life real easy. Without that, i don’t think people will say check out http:\/\/google.com but check out http:\/\/64.233.187.99. I realized how important DNS is to us and without DNS how one can go mad. I installed Solaris (Neveda ) two weeks back and it was good. \ud83d\ude42 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}