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Misconfiguration in nsswitch.conf May Cause IP Addresses to be in Disabled Status (Doc ID 2498233.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 05, 2019

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 11.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Upon boot, addresses (both the loopback and for external subnets) go into disabled status: 

 In addition, there were FMA faults indicating that various network related SMF services (svc:/network/ipmp:default,  svc:/network/ntp:default svc:/network/ldap/client:default and even vc:/ldoms/ldmd:default (system is a primary domain) services are unavailable. 

Changes

It turned out that the system's  /etc/nsswitch.conf file was modified.

Before problem :

  > passwd: files
  > group: files

After problem :

  < passwd: compat winbind
  < group: files ldap winbind

Cause

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