Re: ping by name does not work (sometimes)

[Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>]

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?

Luca

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Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978@infinito.it