From: jim roy <jim@nga.com>
To: fluca1978@infinito.it
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ping by name does not work (sometimes)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:14:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040716091419.E27436@redwing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407161533.22265.fluca1978@infinito.it>; from fluca1978@infinito.it on Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 06:33:22 -0700
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-16 16:14 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
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 [this message]
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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