From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joseph Jackson Subject: Re: local networking hostname Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:16:37 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D3C21D5.5080605@lvcm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Jim Earl Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Jim Earl wrote: > Hello! > > I am setting up a small network of one Linux and one non-Linux box. The > network is established via Ethernet; ifconfig and route report verify this. > I am able to telnet from the non-linux to the Linux box but only using the > IP address - NOT using the hostname. However, when I try to telnet from the > Linux box to itself ( using the loopback interface ), it works fine. My > /etc/hosts , /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/networks seem to be ok. > > I don't have 'named' running, but it looks like I might need to ( though I > had wanted to avoid it ). > > Any ideas are appreciated. > What os is the other machine? that would help to know. if it is a windows machine you will need to edit the file lmhosts in the folder c:\windows just open that file in note pad and enter in the info (it is alot like /etc/hosts file on linux) that will let you use the machines name instead of the ip address to connect to it. unless you want to use a dns server on your network and since its only 2 machines I see no need to. Just edit the lmhosts file. Joseph Jackson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs