If you add one of the other machines in your local /etc/hosts with its ip address you should then be able to ping that machine by name. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dave Martini 1 Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:03 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Can't ping by hostname only by IP address I just installed RHEL WS 3.0 and I can ping other hosts in my subnet by IP address but not by hostname. The hosts file in my /etc/nsswitch.conf file looks like this hosts: files dns I have one IP address of one of my DNS servers in the /etc/resolv.conf file. But when I type ping hostname it says "unknown host" Is there some other file I need to update? Thanks a lot! Dave Martini LLNL -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
