[erlang-questions] Solaris: Can't set long node name!

[Attila Rajmund Nohl]

2009/7/20, Vance Shipley <vances@REDACTED>:
> On my default installs of Solaris 10 simply running 'erl -name foo'
> doesn't work.  I know that I can tune things with settings in an
> inetrc file(*) and I'm looking at that now but I wonder what others
> have found works best.
>
> This is what I get:
>
>      $ erl -name foo
>      {error_logger,{{2009,7,20},{18,52,13}},"Can't set long node
> name!\nPlease check your configuration\n",[]}

Is name resolving properly setup on that Solaris?