Thanks for your response. Adding multiple entries to the hosts file wasn't a viable solution.
Following a suggestion from the list, the best method was to put a domain suffix search entry in /etc/resolv.conf; eg, search domainname.com. This provided machine name resolution across the board. James -----Original Message----- From: Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Machine Name resolution Add it to your /etc/hosts file. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mach1.domainname.com Mach1 On Star Date Wednesday 24 September 2003 09:07 am, James D. Parra sent this sub-space message. > Hello, > > We're having trouble getting machine name resolution from an DNS server. If > we try to ping, for example, a machine named Mach1, we get an "unknown host > Mach1" error. If we ping the FQDN, Mach1.domainname.com, we get resolution. > Oddly, windows boxes can resolve the machine name, from a dos prompt, > without the domain suffix (No WINS being used either). > > What can we do to get machine name resolution, internally, without the > domain name from our Linux boxes? > > Thank you in advance. > > James
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