after server move, cannot start WAS Sneak Preview instances

[Former Member]

Hi,

So I moved our Windows 2003 server to a different subnet. The IP address changed, but the host name did not. After the move my 3 WAS sneak preview instances (SP9 install, upgraded to SP11) do not start. The error I get looks like this:

[Thr 5672] Wed May 11 18:26:30 2005

[Thr 5672] *** ERROR => invalid return code of process [bootstrap] (exitcode=66) [jstartxx.c 1452]

[Thr 5672] JControlExecuteBootstrap: error executing bootstrap node [bootstrap] (rc=66)

[Thr 5672] JControlCloseProgram: started (exitcode = 66)

[Thr 5672] JControlCloseProgram: good bye... (exitcode=66)

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jake

[Former Member]

Hi Jake,

While starting SAP WebAS will check both Forward lookup and reverse lookup of the host.

Please Check the host lookup

like

<b>ping <hostname> Forward Lookup

ping -a <IP Address> Reverse Lookup</b>

Both should resolve to the same hostname.

If it is different, please correct the DNS entries(foward and reverse) in your DNS Server. or try <b>ipconig/registerdns</b> at the command prompt and try.

regards

Anand.M

[Former Member]

Hi,

thanks for the pointer.

The problem was that there was an entry in the hosts file (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) which pointed to the old IP address. Once I changed that entry to the new IP address, I was able to ping and get back the correct IP from the command prompt on that host. Now the SAP instances are starting up correctly...

Thanks for the help.

Jake