From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ferrari Subject: ping by name does not work (sometimes) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:51:42 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200407141751.42558.fluca1978@infinito.it> Reply-To: fluca1978@infinito.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Hi, I've found this problem on a suse 8.0 machine: if I try to ping a machi= ne by=20 its name the program stay locked (no messages, neither errors). If I pi= ng=20 with the IP address everything works. A problem of DNS? I thought this,= but=20 other users on the same machine can ping by a DNS name. I'm talking, of= =20 course, of non privileged users. Any idea? Luca --=20 Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@infinito.it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Il pensiero del giorno e': Si scelgano degli identificatori mnemonici. Se non ci si ricorda cosa vuol dire "mnemonico", =E8 un bel problema. (Larry Wall) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html