D'oh! I was pinging just the machine name and not the fully qualified name and it turns out it was a problem with the name service configuration file.
A line in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file needed to be changed from hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 to hosts: files dns mdns4 Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction - I'm slowly getting better! On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 20:26 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Matt Burkhardt<[email protected]> wrote: > > amandad: check_name_give_sockaddr: > > resolve_hostname('ubuntu.imparisystems.local'): Name or service not known > > > > > > What else do I need to change? > > I think this is the place to start -- why is that domain name not > resolving on the client? > > Dustin > -- Matt Burkhardt, M.Sci. Technology Management [email protected] (301) 682-7901 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 http://www.imparisystems.com
