On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 02:03:46PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > root@hawk:~# host samba > samba.localdomain is an alias for hawk.localdomain. > hawk.localdomain has address 192.168.100.6
host(1) looks in DNS only. It doesn't do the standard name resolution that applications do. > root@hawk:~# ping 192.168.100.6 > PING 192.168.100.6 (192.168.100.6) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 192.168.100.6: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.083 ms > However, when I try to ping samba by host name: > > root@hawk:~# ping samba > PING samba (192.168.122.1) 56(84) bytes of data. Note that this is a *different* IP address. > # For the benefit of virtual machines. > 192.168.100.12 apt-proxy > 192.168.122.1 samba samba.localdomain And that's where it came from (/etc/hosts). If this IP address is wrong, then it shouldn't be in here.
