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 - : 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
