Re: ping by name does not work (sometimes)

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Are you trying to ping host or ping host.domain.com?

if your just trying host make sure you have a search line
in you /etc/resolve.conf


On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 09:33, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> 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

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