Can't ping by hostname only by IP address

Travis Zadikem tzadikem at picosecond.com
Tue Feb 8 22:09:42 UTC 2005


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.

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Dave Martini 1
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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

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