> I'll make a wild guess here: Is it possible that the alias is not in > DNS? Perhaps one machine you are testing from has WINS enabled and it > is resolving the cluster alias. > Microsoft's tcpip stack will use WINS for name resolution if it is > available. > Try modifying your script so that $pinghost is a FQDN. If it then fails > on both machines, DNS is your answer.
I can reproduce the same thing on my machine here... I tried with and without FQDN, no difference. When I ping the clusteralias in a dosbox, I get a hostname of one of the servers back, like: Ping clusteralias Reply from nasserver1.fq.dn _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
