Re: Changing hostname / IP address

It'll be fine. This principle is applied in standby-server arrangements for disaster recovery/component failure. "Five Cats" <cats_spam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message news:6P6SdBBuvEBAFwU2@[127.0.0.1]... > > A customer has a nice new (ish) box and are wondering if changing the IP > address & host name to that of the current one (which would of course > also be changed) would be a possible way of avoiding having to get a new > icon on each PCs desktop - there are several hundred PCs in quite a few > offices across 800 square miles and they don't have Citrix or similar to > manage the desktops. > > I can see it will be necessary to alter the host in the sqlhosts file, > but will this be acceptable? Or is there something I don't know about > in the sysmaster and/or sysutils database that would get upset? > > The OS is Solaris 8, the Informix is IDS 7.3x. > > TIA > > -- > Five Cats > Email to: cats_spam at uk2 dot net