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From: Benoit Desforges <bdesforges@gmail.com>
To: fluca1978@infinito.it
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ping by name does not work (sometimes)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:06:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d325494d04071502061dee60ad@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407141751.42558.fluca1978@infinito.it>

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 ...

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-15  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-14 15:51 ping by name does not work (sometimes) Luca Ferrari
2004-07-15  9:06 ` Benoit Desforges [this message]
2004-07-16 13:33   ` Luca Ferrari
2004-07-16 13:46     ` Jeff Largent
2004-07-16 14:17       ` Luca Ferrari
2004-07-16 16:14     ` jim roy
2004-07-16 16:41       ` Luca Ferrari
2004-07-19 12:46         ` Jeff Largent
2004-07-19 14:10           ` Luca Ferrari
2004-07-21 16:31 ` Luca Ferrari

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