On Wednesday 14 July 2004 17:51 Luca Ferrari's cat walking on the keyboard 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 I've solved the problem, or at least I hope! It was a nisplus problem. In fact there were different configurations among nsswitch.conf and host.conf of the resolution of a name. Even if I don't export servers thru nis, removing the nisplus entry in the "host" row of the nsswitch.conf solved the problem. Thanks to everyone for the assistance. 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
