On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:06 Benoit Desforges's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > 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 ... The file is readable by everyone -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 677 2003-10-18 11:37 /etc/hosts and furthermore the entry I'm trying to ping is not included in the file (and there's not a NIS file sharing), thus it must be requested thru DNS. Any idea? Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx - : 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
