Month: July 2018

Solaris 11 Client Not Updating DNS Through DHCP

By: toddalancox Date: July 23, 2018 Categories: Enterprise Computing,Solaris / Illumos Tags: solaris

In an environment running the ISC DHCP server and BIND DNS server, DHCP leases should update the DNS server dynamically with the name and IP address of the client assigned the lease. This was not working for my Solaris 11.3 clients in my lab. I tracked this down to the Solaris DHCP client not sending…

Configuring OpenLDAP to Provide Name Services in Solaris 11.4

By: toddalancox Date: July 1, 2018 Categories: Enterprise Computing,Solaris / Illumos Tags: solaris

Overview This post will walk through setting up an OpenLDAP server to provide LDAP name services for Solaris clients. Having previously gone through this process with a different LDAP server, I was interested in what seems to be better support for using OpenLDAP for this purpose in Solaris 11.4. There doesn’t seem to be a…