> From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:19:00 -0700
> To: Jim Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: local networking hostname
>
> At 09:03 AM 7/22/02 -0600, Jim Earl wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am setting up a small network of one Linux and one non-Linux box. The
>> network is established via Ethernet; ifconfig and route report verify this.
>> I am able to telnet from the non-linux to the Linux box but only using the
>> IP address - NOT using the hostname. However, when I try to telnet from the
>> Linux box to itself ( using the loopback interface ), it works fine. My
>> /etc/hosts , /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/networks seem to be ok.
>>
>> I don't have 'named' running, but it looks like I might need to ( though I
>> had wanted to avoid it ).
>>
>> Any ideas are appreciated.
>
> The files that you say "seem to be ok" affect the ability of the Linux host
> itself to resolve names, but they have nothing to do with the ability of
> the "non-linux" host to resolve names. Your options are:
>
> 1. Run an on-LAN nameserver and tell the non-Linux host to use it to
> resolve names. Running BIND (named) on the Linux host is one way to do this.
>
> 2. Set up the non-Linux host to do local name resolution using its
> equivalent of /etc/hosts . Knowing nothing about this host, execpt that it
> is a computer and it does not run Linux, I can't tell you how to do this.
>
Thanks Joeseph and Ray...
The Non-Linux is a Mac OS 9. What you both are saying makes sense- not a
Linux issue, but rather a Mac equivalent of '/etc/hosts'. I have been
screwing around with with the TCP/IP Control Panel, including "Selecting a
Host File", following apples instructiosn on that. Still no luck;
I have, however, noticed that routed is not a running process. Should it be
in this case?
Thanks!
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