Problem with local network

Chris Jones linux at stow-jones.co.uk
Fri Jan 13 18:50:11 UTC 2006


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I have a networking problem which is puzzling me. I am clearly missing
something. Several of my servers apps are failing because they are
unable to resolve any of the local hostnames. I have checked
/etc/hosts, /ete/resolv.conf and both are as they should be, yet I am
unable to ping any of my LAN connected PC's by name. I can ping them
by their IP addressess, but not by name.

What else should I look for?

My hosts file is:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1    bilbo.stow-jones.local localhost.localdomain    localhost
192.168.0.3    bilbo.stow-jones.local bilbo
192.168.0.2    gandalf.stow-jones.local    gandalf
192.168.0.4    frodo.stow-jones.local    frodo

When I ping to any of the PC's I get the following:-
[root at bilbo ~]# ping -c4 192.168.0.4
PING 192.168.0.4 (192.168.0.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=0.190 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.182 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.184 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.192 ms

- --- 192.168.0.4 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3014ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.182/0.187/0.192/0.004 ms, pipe 2
[root at bilbo ~]# ping -c4 frodo
ping: unknown host frodo
[root at bilbo ~]#

- --
Chris Jones

"If John Madden steps outside on February 2, looks down, and doesn't
see his
feet, we'll have 6 more weeks of Pro football."
- -- Chuck Newcombe
It's currently a problem of access to gigabits through punybaud.
- -- J. C. R. Licklider
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