On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: ssahme > ssahme >Whenever I try to ping this machine (from itself) by giving the ssahme >fqdn hostname, I get an error message like: ssahme > ssahme > unknown host matrix.domain.com ssahme > ssahme >nslookup on that fqdn hostname gives an error message saying that the ssahme >specified domain doesn't exist.
make sure that the windows box and the linux box are pointed at the same DNS. that is if the windows box is using DNS. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:19pm up 133 days, 7:13, 3 users, load average: 1.58, 1.60, 1.55