milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) (10/05/90)
In the referenced article tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes: >However, adding a cluster client when you already have it in >/etc/hosts and/or in the DNS (if, for example, you are converting the >client to diskless, or moving it from one server to another) is a real >pain: You have to comment out the entry from /etc/hosts and kill named >before you start sam. If you are adding a cluster client called >'john', and john.your.dom.ain already is in /etc/hosts and/or the DNS, >sam won't let you assign john's own IP address to it. Sam doesn't >understand that it's the same machine you are talking about... The workaround we have used is to give sam the proper name. so the CDF's will be created properly, but a bogus IP address (we keep one which does not have a ptr entry for this purpose). After exiting sam, The IP address can be set correctly in /etc/hosts on the server. -jem -- JEMilburn@lbl.gov ...!ucbvax!lbl.gov!JEMilburn