On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 15:01 +0100, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:55:32AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I have two machines on a home network: > > cyrus - wireless > > saturn - wired > > > > On cyrus : ping saturn and host saturn both fail saying saturn can't be > > found. However, ssh saturn works. > > > > On saturn: ping cyrus works but host cyrus fails. > > ssh cyrus, works > > > > I don't use iptables. Any explanations for this behavior? > > > > Errors are like: > > ** server can't find saturn: NXDOMAIN > > > > I suspect that some things use the local /etc/host bu others do not. > > Certainly the 'host' command doesn't use /etc/hosts so that suggests:- > > cyrus can't find saturn using DNS but saturn is in its /etc/hosts > file so ssh works. > > saturn can find cyrus using DNS, it may well be able to find it > using /etc/hosts as well. > > I wonder if you have things set up so ping (ICMP packets?) are refused > somewhere in the system so that ping will never work regardless of > DNS, routing, etc. I agree with your analysis but I don't understand the asymmetry of the behavior. I am unaware that I ban ping but that may be a DNS thing. -- ======================================================================= Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
