Can't ping by hostname only by IP address

[Jay Berryman]

In your /etc/resolv.conf file you also need a search line for DNS suffixes.
An example would be as follows:

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nameserver 192.168.1.1

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-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Dave Martini 1
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 16:03
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
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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