Re: [Networker] two clients with the same hostname / netbiosname

Jeah its here. Thank you for pointing this out.
http://adsm.org/lists/html/Networker/2005-08/index.html
this is a rather not so nice problem. I took out the shortname for one of
the client yesterday, so the aliases fiels only containes the FQDN.

It does not work. I guess I'll have to start renaming some servers.


2008/12/11 Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT ndsu DOT edu>

> In regard to: Re: [Networker] two clients with the same hostname /...:
>
> hostname resolution is OK.
>>
>> When I define the clients I put the FQDN in the name field. Networker then
>> creates the aliases wichc seems to consist of the FQDN and a shortname.
>>
>> But as Viertel mentions, if I put the FQDN name in the aliases files
>> manually, it does not create a shortname.
>>
>> Now it's just a question if Networker handles that there is no shortname
>> only FQND in the aliases field.
>>
>> I have this issue because now I have two clients with the same hostname,
>> but
>> a different DNS suffix.
>>
>
> We have a lot of this at our site, and I posted about it a few years ago.
> Legato (I think it was before EMC bought them, but don't recall for
> certain) changed the FQDN behavior at 7.1.x and it caused us a lot of
> headaches.  See the archives from August of 2005, specifically the thread
> about "7.1.3 client DNS checks".
>
> In addition to the suggestion that Peter made above, we have found it
> useful to have
>
>        save -c your.client.fqdn.here
>
> in the "Backup command" for the clients where this is a problem.  See
> the thread in the archive for more info.
>
> Tim
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