DNS/NIS name service prereq failed
May 30, 2018 Leave a comment
I was configuring an Oracle Member cluster for Databases. This type of cluster was introduced in 12.2. It has a lot of benefits. To see more information and installation steps for this type of cluster visit Oracle doc site.
Visually it looks like the following:
So during the installtion prerequisite check was complaining about “DNS/NIS name service”
If you press details of the error you get a huge message. I won’t paste it’s content here, because it is something like bla bla… bla. Coud not find any meaningfull information there and lost too much time.
I seached on the Internet , still not found any good info. Then started trying everything that came to my mind and one of them solved it.
So my entries about scan looked like the following:
Added domain name at the end:
And my check looks like the following:
Please note that there may be several cases when this type of failure appeares. I showed you one of them.
Good Luck!