netmask of interface not being read from /etc/netmasks

[quicksilverm25]

Hi,
I am trying to setup a private network. One of the steps which I did was to write netmasks of qfe0 as 255.255.255.252 in /etc/netmasks file. After rebooting the machine it remains the same in the file, but the

ifconfig qfe0 shows 255.255.255.0 and I am not sure why it is doing so ?? Why is qfe0 not reading the /etc/netmasks file.

Thanks in advance.
Raj

 

[daFranze]

can I see the following?
cat /etc/netmasks
cat /etc/hosts
more /etc/hostname.*
ifconfig -a

netmasks file is a "first match" database...

Best Regards, Franz
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Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[bfitzmai]

Also look at the netmask entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

 

[quicksilverm25]

Hi,

1. I have qfe3 which is up and running.
2. I have hostname.qfe3 and hosts properly configured. The qfe3 is alos my loghost.
3. I now need to make this server standby, so I disable the qfe3 by moving the hostname.qfe3 to hostname.qfe3.disabled.
4. I reboot the machine and login using CONSOLE.
5. I do su - emsadmin. This emsadmin is just a user on this machine.
6. It takes longer than usual for this user to login. How can I prevent this???

I cannot make the qfe3 up since the same IP address is assigned to the active server. Any suggestions how to prevent this? I suspect it's taking longer time because of SOME DNS issue? Am I correct? What causes it and how can I prevent it?

Thanks,
Kabeer