Kdump does not use DNS in it's initrd in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Issue
- Support for DNS is limited to the creation of the kdump initrd:
- the mount command in the init script specifies the resolved IP address.
- If the storage share is moved, all the kdumps will fail.
- The server name ought to be maintained in the init script, and a DNS lookup should resolve it at dump time.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3 and earlier
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