I'd bet big money on that. The best way to handle this is to tell your
Indexer to use all servers (it's pointing to XXintranet03 right now)
then manually edit hour Hosts file to point bcvaintranet01 at the IP
address of the WFE you want to be crawled. If you change it without
setting your Indexer to "use all servers" then it will correct the Hosts
file after you change it.



Also beware that since this change is at the IP level, all IP
communications will get this change. If you have a machine named
'bcvaintranet01' then your Indexer will always use the IP address you
specify, not its actual IP address. I've seen this be a problem for file
copying. On the indexer you type \\bcvaintranet01\sharename
<file:///\\bcvaintranet01\sharename> but you're actually going to the
WFE you specified in the Hosts file. Just something to be aware of when
your farm URL is not a FQDN.



tk



From: sharepoint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sharepoint@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Bryan Hart
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:40 AM
To: sharepoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [sharepoint] Wierd Sharepoint problem



The host file entry typically comes from having set a specific WFE for
crawling.

Bryan Hart | Technical Consultant | Solanite Consulting, Inc.

From: sharepoint@yahoogroups.com <mailto:sharepoint%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:sharepoint@yahoogroups.com <mailto:sharepoint%40yahoogroups.com>
] On
Behalf Of Eid Mashaal
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 1:06 PM
To: sharepoint@yahoogroups.com <mailto:sharepoint%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [sharepoint] Wierd Sharepoint problem

my sharpoint servers

XXintranet01 (web server)
XXintranet02 (sql)
XXintranet03 (web server, search server) (use dedicated front end
selected)

in the hosts file there is an entry among others that says:

172.22.17.47 bcvaintranet01 # Added by Office SharePoint Server Search
(12/12/2008 1:58 AM)

the problem is that bcvaintranet03's ip address is .47

does anyone know where sharepoint read's the list that it imprints in
the hosts file?

is it from alternate access mappings?

or is it from search. I know that this is a search thing cause if you
use all front ends the hosts file is not written.

Thanks in advance,

Eid

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