Have you checked with whoever controls your DNS to see if they added LINUX60 for some reason?
Scott On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really, really dumb question..... > > What would make a DNS server automagically add an entry into its list? > > I'm getting ready to generate a couple more Samba servers. I brought up > two of them (LINUX60 and LINUX61) for testing. I brought up both of them, > based on my static documentation (installing SUSE 10 SP2). > > LINUX60, I bought up last week. > Last week, I couldn't ping LINUX60, but I could ping its IP address. > This week, I can ping LINUX60. > > This week, I bought up LINUX61 on Monday. > Here it is, Wednesday, and I still can't ping LINUX61. (The IP address > does ping) > > When I ping some older images (LINUX50-LINUX59), I can't ping the names, > but I can ping the addresses. From that, I think that no one else is > updating our DNS servers, and the automagically something, is looking for > something that I, perhaps, sometimes is specifying. > > Funny, our older SAMBA server, LINUX27 is pingable, but LINUX26 isn't. > (These are SLES 8 flavors.) > > I think I remember reading that if I bring up the DNS Server code in a > linux image, that action will cause my machine to automatically, be added to > the DNS servers list. I have never, brought up the DNS Server code on any > of my machines. > > I do specify a DNS server address when I create the Linux image, and I > think I'm pretty good at doing this on all my images. > > It has be baffled that some images seem to be dynamically added while other > images are not. > > Any discussion on this? > > Thanks > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > Law of Cat Acceleration > > A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and > ready to stop. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
