ITEM: BY8412L

sbclient: Cannot find hostname for 9.19.145.103

Question:

Env:
  AIX 4.2
  sysback 4.1.1.2
  RISC 43p

Problem:
  Booting from network install image   
  Changed the input device to point to another system 
  I had the change the /etc/hosts file by hand to make this work.  Documented in  another problem record on that issue

  The install went fine until this point:
  
  Just after running the bosboot and setting the bootlist got this error message 
  Restoring /home filesystem ..
  sbclient: Cannot find hostname for 9.19.145.103
  stdin:  not in compressed format
  No writer on input pipe
  sbclient:  Cannot find hostname for 9.19.145.103

  It did this for all the images. 

  Should have the process have atleast stop and prompted me to Perform System 
  Maintenance or Continue when it encounted the first error message?

  The problem is with the sbclient command.  It does not like 
  just a IPaddress It wants to be able to resolve the name 
  first.  

 
 Also many many errors about missing files from /var/adm and /var/adm/ras 

Should /var be include in things to restore first???

CLOSED by tj on 04/27/97 23:58:
This occurs because the /etc/hosts file was restored from the backup,
thereby erasing the instserver and instgate hostnames from the file.
This problem should have been occurring on ALL network installs since
the earliest level of Verison 4 so I'm not sure why we havent seen this
before. The exception, as in my case, is if the instserver hostname is
already in the /etc/hosts file on the backup.

Fix in sysback 4.1.1.3  

Action Plan:
  sending sysback 4.1.1.4 to the customer



Support Line: sbclient: Cannot find hostname for 9.19.145.103 ITEM: BY8412L

Dated: April 1997 Category: N/A

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