It is because someone at BMC hard coded dummy.host.com into the server binary files. I am guessing that some junior programmer put it in some shared library as a temporary fix for something and never got back to replace it with a call to find the current domain when they needed FQDN somewhere.
If you want to see you can go to the bin directory for the ARS system and do a grep grep "dummy.host.com" * On my 7.6.04 SP3 201201302357 I find 26 matches. I see the same error from time to time usually when accessing the serveradmin plugin. Fred -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of D Dussie Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 9:10 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ARERR 90: <server>.dummy.host.com Hello List, Error:Cannot establish a network connection to the AR System server :<server>.dummy.host.com : RPC: Success (ARERR 90) This error only occurs, On the report creator form; while modify, search, create a report. Also, this affects the report selection from table, loading each line. Resolution: add <server>.dummy.host.com to the /etc/host file. I'm trying to understand, why the application is looking for dummy.host.com. Can anyone assist? hopefully, a solution that allows us to remove the entry from etc/host. Background: Upgraded from 7.5P4 to 8.1.00 P2 Hotfix ARS on UNIX 7.1 and 11g. Thank you Dee. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"