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From: Benoit Desforges <bdesforges@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ping by name does not work (sometimes)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:06:03 +0200
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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 ...