NIS+, DNS server, DHCP

Question

I have installed Solaris 2.8 with all the patches on a PC. I installed NIS+ populating the tables from the files included into the folder /nis+files. Now I want to install DNS server for a small local network made up by two hosts: a Window2000PC and a Solaris 2.8 PC. I want to use DNS server of Solaris 2.8 to test the functionality of a DNS client of the PC. And after I want to install DHCP to test the same funcionality . I should like to make things step by step, first with DNS server and after with DNS server together to DHCP server too, both installed on Solaris 2.8, coexisting .
On the network i have another host ,a router, that gives me the acces to Internet
How do i install DNS server on Solaris 2.8, and DHCP server ? Can someone help me ?
Thank you in advance
Marcello

Answer 1

Hi Guys,
I want to thank all for the valuable information.
I thought of sharing my own comments.
I have two SunSparc Ultra10 machines. I want to network them together using a Linksys router (Cisco) so they could communicate and also to be able to access the Internet. I let the router to do the (DHCP) work, however; since the routher doesn't send hostname I always got 'unknown' and I need to have proper hostname to do my training work. So, I've read this page and I thought I could contribute the result of my work.
(assuming my hostname= sys41)
On Solaris 10, all what I did,
1. On /etc/hostname.hme0 .. I've added,
inet sys41
2. I've created /etc/nodename .. and added,
sys41
3. On /etc/default/dhcpagent .. added,
REQUEST_HOSTNAME=yes
actualy, it was there, I just removed the comment (#) and changed it from no to yes
and double checked that I have ,
PARAM_LIST=1,3,6,12,15,28,43
That's all, I didn't need to change anything else nor add any script file or anything.
The following files where not there on my Solaris10 machine,
/etc/init.d/network
/etc/init.d/inetsvc
On Solaris 9,
1. On /etc/hostname.hme0 .. I've added,
inet sys41
2. I've created /etc/nodename .. and added,
sys41
3. On /etc/default/dhcpagent .. added,
REQUEST_HOSTNAME=yes
actualy, it was there, I just removed the comment (#) and changed it from no to yes
and double checked that I have ,
PARAM_LIST=1,3,6,12,15,28,43
I had to add 15,6,28 on my Solaris 9
4. /etc/init.d/network
changed all 'unknown' to 'sys41' which is my hostname
5. couldn't find /etc/init.d/inetsvc !
Then I've deleted /etc/nodename on Solaris 9.0 and still worked fine ..
On Solaris 10, I've deleted /etc/nodename and it didn't work.
So, I guess for Solaris 10 /etc/nodename is very important .. For the Solaris 9, /etc/inet.d/network did the job !!
Hope my comments were helpful... Regards ..