[SunHELP] Ping machine.

[Warren Brennan]

Andrew,

In the resolv.conf file, the first line should be:

	domain	yourdomain.com

This way when you try to resolve hw3c3363, it will know to resolve
hw3c3363.yourdomain.com.

Cheers,

Warren


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Meng, Andrew [SMTP:Andrew.Meng at capitalone.com]
> Sent:	Monday, April 02, 2001 3:47 PM
> To:	'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Cc:	'Pascal Kreyer'
> Subject:	RE: [SunHELP] Ping machine.
> 
> 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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