[SunHELP] Ping machine.

[Jarrett Carver]

Are you sure that the NT hosts are in DNS? It is possible they are using a 
WINS server for the name resolution of NT hosts.

Have you tried a fully qualified nslookup?

# nslookup hw3c3363.kdc.xxxx.com

If you don't get out put from this, there is no DNS entry for this host in 
this domain. If it works then you need to adjust your search path to include 
kdc.xxxx.com in your /etc/resolv.conf



----Original Message Follows----
From: Chanaka Mendis <chanakam at MillenniumIT.COM>
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Ping machine.
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 20:56:01 +0600

"Meng, Andrew" wrote:

 > hello,
 >
 > No, I can not use nslookup to find the machine.This the error message: "
 > can't find hw3c3363: Non-existent host/domain"
 >
 > I have hosts:      files dns   in nsswitch.conf.
 >
 > In resolv.conf on UNIX.
 > nameserver 10.10.1.42           #primary  : gus
 > nameserver 122.13.50.219        #secondary: scrooge
 >
 > this is the output of ipconfig /all on NT side
 > Host Name . . . . . . . . . : hw3c3363.kdc.xxxx.com
 > DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : 10.10.1.42
 >                               122.13.50.219
 >
 > Can anybody figure out what the problem is? Thanks!
 >
 > Andrew
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: ahamed afrose [mailto:afrose at siemens-dic.com]
 > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 11:57 AM
 > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
 > Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Ping machine.
 >
 > Can you do an nslookup from te unix machine for the NT (name) box?
 > /afrose
 >
 > "Meng, Andrew" wrote:
 >
 > > Hello all,
 > >
 > > I can only ping a NT machine by IP address but not by machine name from 
a
 > > UNIX machine; there is no problem on NT side by IP address or machine
 > name.
 > > The UNIX and NT machine are both pointing to the same DNS server.
 > >
 > > Can anyone give me any clue? Thanks!
 > >
 > > Andrew
 > >
 > > 
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In resolv.conf U need to add the following line.
domain <your domain>
nameserver <IP address of DNS>


/Gayantha

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