"Raghuraj, Ajay" wrote:
>
> but then the hostname of my windows machine should be in the /etc/hosts file
> of the linux machine...right??
Partially. You can think of /etc/hosts like local cache. On your company
network, dns should be there and the unix box should query to dns to find out
what the machine name is.
The order in which host names are looked up is stoerd in /etc/hosts.conf. You
will see an entry there like 'order hosts,bind' .It means that to resolve the
name machine should look in /etc/hosts first and if not found there go to dns.
HTH
Shridhar
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