On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 13:22, Divine Tanyingoh <dtanying@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Issue: After installing vms on vmware, I noticed a difference in behavior
> between centos 6 vs 7. On centos 6 I cannot ping the hostname and get a
> reply without first resolving in the /etc/hosts file by adding a new entry:
> 192.168.0.47 server1.example.com.
>
> But for centos 7 I am able to ping the hostname and get a reply even when I
> have not made any changes to the /etc/hosts file. Why is there this
> difference between centos 6 vs 7.
>
>
That sounds more like a questions for VMware forums than here.. something
in vmware is populating some sort of 'DNS' for you to do this. I don't know
of any change in EL6 and EL7 that would do this by itselfd.
> Thank you for your assistance.
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