On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:51:42 +0200, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I've found this problem on a suse 8.0 machine: if I try to ping a machine by > its name the program stay locked (no messages, neither errors). If I ping > with the IP address everything works. A problem of DNS? I thought this, but > other users on the same machine can ping by a DNS name. I'm talking, of > course, of non privileged users. > Any idea? > > Luca > > -- > Luca Ferrari, > fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx > Are you sure that all the different users can read the /etc/host file ? I would sugest you to check if this actualy readable by everybody. but I may be wrong ... - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
