> The other way that the global zone identity normally leaks through to the > non-global zones is through the system's hostid. So if you compare the > output of `/usr/bin/hostid` with `for e in $allglobalzones ; do ssh $e > /usr/bin/hostid ; done`, you can easily see which global zone matches your > local. > > That's also a way for your application administrators (using > application-level clustering) to verify that they are not running on the same > physical node. If their hostids are different, they're different. >
This is not always reliable. S8 and S9 branded zones have configureable hostids, and in the future this is likely to be available for native zones. -Steve L. _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
