• Mac OS X Server

    Mac OS X Server: Does My Name and Host Name match?

    December 1, 2007

    Two utilities worth noting here, changeip and scutil.  You can check if your name and hostname match using changeip.  It will look at the DNS and look at the name your system has for itself and let you know if they match: changeip -checkhostname  You can also use scutil to see what the hostname is: scutil –getHostName If you want to change the hostname: scutil –setHostName <new hostname> With the DNS, if the name server runs on the system you’re sitting at then you can edit the zone files on that system.  Use dig to check whether the name matches the hostname.  Think FQDN here btw, with Server…

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  • Xsan

    Xsan: Unresponsive Xsan Admin

    January 2, 2007

    There are times with Xsan when the admin utility sits unresponsive (the pinwheel at the bottom of the screen spins annoyingly to no end).  When the Admin tool gets unresponsive you are typically staring down the barrel of some kind of naming issue.  In these cases I almost universally have DNS administrators tell me that everything is fine without first bothering to actually look at the records for the hosts on the SAN.  The easy way to verify this hypothesis is to build a custom hosts file (/etc/hosts).  This bypasses the DNS resolver and if everything loads up correctly then you do indeed have a DNS/host naming issue.

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