Installing software after 11.11 64 bit upgrade

[mike worrell]

Hi all,
I just finished upgrading a test box to 11.11 64 bit. Now i'm running swinstall to put on items off th eapplication cd's and I get can't find system name. uname -a shows all the correct info. i can ping 127.0.0.1 ok (localhost) but if i ping local host i dont' get anything returned shouldn't i get something since it's in etc/host and also when i reboot it takes about 40 minutes getting thru the all the startup stuff. Figured the 2 may be connected.
Any help or insight will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mikey

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

The best thing would be to do a

#set_parms initial

[Mel Burslan]

check if you have an old /etc/resolv.conf file which is directing this server to the DNS for nema resolution and timeouts are not happening for a long time. If there is a resolv.conf, rename it to something other than this name or totally remove it. Your problem sounds like a DNS resolution issue to me.

[Patrick Wallek]

I agree that your problem sounds DNS related. Instead of renaming your resolv.conf file though, make sure that the hosts line looks like:

hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns

Make sure you look in hosts for name resolution information first and then go to DNS.