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I am trying to install Oracle 9i on my Linux Red Hat Enterprise 3 Server (WS Edition). That is right, WS edition (not ES or AS). I don't know if any one of you has done this before ????
Anyway, I am running into host IP configuration issues. To get a better understanding of the problem I need to run the nslookup command. Problem is, that when I do this is what I get:
1) nslookup
(Note nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases consider using the 'dig' or 'host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the '-sil ent' option to prevent this message from appearing.)
I tried using the 'dig command, but I don't understand the output or how to use it. The dig gives me a parts a QUESTION, ANSWER and ADDITIONAL SECTIONS.
How can I use these commands to resolve my problem ?
Any ideas ?
2) cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network funcitonality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
4) host -l Linux2005
;; Connection to 192.9.200.80#53(192.9.200.80) for Linux2005 failed: connection refused.
host -v Linux2005
Trying "Linux2005"
Host Linux2005 not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Received 102 bytes from 192.9.200.80#53 in 187 ms
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PT
PS: I am getting error messages such as 'Thrown when the IP address of a host cannot be determined' Pop-Up error messages. How can I go about to resolve this issue ?
probably your hostname is defined in /etc/sysconfig/network, like this:
HOSTNAME=linux2005
some programs search your hostname to connect. if your hostname is not defined, probably like this programs or daemons cannot work. your hostname is not defined in /etc/hosts file.
i advice u to change your /etc/hosts file this:
127.0.0.1 linux2005 localhost.localdomain localhost
im not familiar to oracle. i just know about networking a little
do u have localhost entry in hosts file?
maybe it tres to resolve localhost through nameserver. u can try to run named (bind). named has localhost entries by the default. and change /etc/resolv.conf to use your local nameserver.
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