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I'm running Solaris 10 and I'm having issues with a particular network and need to replace host entries in my hosts file. I've updated the hosts file. Is there a refresh the hosts entries without a reboot?

Ken J
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    I don't personally know Solaris, but on every Unix system I've ever used (and even on Windows ones...) changes to the `hosts` file *never* required a reboot to become effective. – Massimo Feb 17 '14 at 23:13
  • Not to be **that** guy but you could have tested it for yourself in less time than it took to post your question. – joeqwerty Feb 18 '14 at 02:28

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No reboot required. But to be sure the changes take effect you can restart the nscd:

pkill nscd

SMF should automatically restart the nscd.. or: 

svcadm restart svc:/system/name-service-cache:default

Hope that helps.

Wolfie
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    Solaris name resolution behavior is odd in some other ways, see http://blog.superpat.com/2006/06/08/solaris-10-etchosts-gotcha/ – quadruplebucky Feb 17 '14 at 23:49