Can't ping by hostname from clients - was Which distro to switch an FC3 samba server to?

[A. Rick Anderson]

Qian Qiao wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:36:34 -0500, A. Rick Anderson <arick at pobox.com> wrote:
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>DNS not working? Does any of the client machines resolve proper
>domains correctly?
>
>Try the following things on your windows clients:
>1. Open up a command prompt
>2. run nslookup
>3. server 192.168... (the ip address of you samba and bind server,
>can't remember, :D)
>4. gmail.google.com
>5. If the above resolves correctly, try the other machine names, like aman
>6. Tell me what happens.
>  
>
>From Anar, they resolve:
-bash-3.00$ nslookup
> server 192.168.0.2
Default server: 192.168.0.2
Address: 192.168.0.2#53

>From a DOS window on a client pc it fails:
Z:\>nslookup
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.2: Non-existent domain
Default Server:  net0116008.direcpc.com
Address:  198.77.116.8

> server anar
*** Can't find address for server anar: Non-existent domain
> quit
Server:  net0116008.direcpc.com
Address:  198.77.116.8

*** net0116008.direcpc.com can't find quit: Non-existent domain
>
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A. Rick Anderson