From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ferrari Subject: Re: ping by name does not work (sometimes) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:17:32 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200407161617.32410.fluca1978@infinito.it> References: <200407141751.42558.fluca1978@infinito.it> <200407161533.22265.fluca1978@infinito.it> <1089985612.19727.86.camel@mcbain.imagelinks.com> Reply-To: fluca1978@infinito.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1089985612.19727.86.camel@mcbain.imagelinks.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Friday 16 July 2004 15:46 Jeff Largent's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > Are you trying to ping host or ping host.domain.com? > > if your just trying host make sure you have a search line > in you /etc/resolve.conf Both, and in resolv.conf there's a line with my search domain. Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@infinito.it