Hi Liane, That problem was due to /etc/inet/ipnodes, which in theory is for IPV6 only, but I have/had configured IPV4 (192.168.x.x)on my laptop.
So couln't understand why it happened.Any way I removed this files(after backing up) and then soflinked to /etc/hosts which solved this proble. Thanks a lot for your concern about this issue. Cheers, ZIA This message posted from opensolaris.org
