Re: ping by name does not work (sometimes)

[jim roy <jim@nga.com>]

On 2004.07.16 06:33 Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:06 Benoit Desforges's cat walking on the keyboard  
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:51:42 +0200, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> 
> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I've found this problem on a suse 8.0 machine: if I try to ping a machine
> > > by its name the program stay locked (no messages, neither errors). If I
> > > ping with the IP address everything works. A problem of DNS? I thought
> > > this, but other users on the same machine can ping by a DNS name. I'm
> > > talking, of course, of non privileged users.
> > > Any idea?
> > >
> > > Luca
> > >
> > > --
> > > Luca Ferrari,
> > > fluca1978@infinito.it
> >
> > Are you sure that all the different users can read the /etc/host file ?
> > I would sugest you to check if this actualy readable by everybody. but
> > I may be wrong ...
> 
> The file is readable by everyone
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          677 2003-10-18 11:37 /etc/hosts
> and furthermore the entry I'm trying to ping is not included in the file (and 
> there's not a NIS file sharing), thus it must be requested thru DNS.
> Any idea?


Are you sure the other users are using the same ping?