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Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) 6/00 Release Notes Update

Installation Kiosk Does Not Look Up DNS Correctly (4318101)

If you use the Solaris 8 Installation CD to install the Solaris 8 6/00 operating environment, select DNS as the name service, and type a host name as the proxy, the installation kiosk does not look up DNS correctly, and the attempt to establish a network connection fails. The following message is displayed.


Connection Failure

Workaround: To enable the installation kiosk to resolve the IP address of the proxy server, perform the following steps:

  1. Open a terminal window.

  2. Start the nscd daemon to enable the kiosk to resolve the proxy server IP address.


    # /usr/sbin/nscd

For more information on the nscd daemon, see the man page nscd(1M).

To prevent this problem, type an IP address as the HTTP proxy instead of a host name.