To ping your Win98 host, you definitely do NOT need DNS. Assuming the
hardware is all okay and you have eth0 (the interface to your Ethernet card)
properly configured, you should be able to ping the Win98 host by its IP
number. For a small network, you can put the name-to-number translations in
the file /etc/hosts, which is a descendent of the pre-DNS standard for
address translation.
/etc/hosts needs entries that look something like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.1 rocky rocket.squirrel.com
192.168.1.2 bullwinkle bullwinkle.moose.com
192.168.1.3 boris boris.badunov.com
192.168.1.4 natasha natasha.fatale.com
that is, an address followed by all legal names for that host. (The
"localhost" entry is a loopback address and is standard.)
If you cannot ping the Win98 box by address, see if the Linux box's Ethernet
interface is configured correctly -- the command "ifconfig" will report the
status of all network interfaces.
At 12:04 PM 1/12/99 -0800, Michael wrote:
>I'm currently trying to teach myself Linux. I have a system up and running
and I'm trying to configure the TCP/IP on it. Do I need to have DNS up and
running. right now all I'm trying to do is ping my Win98 box.
>
>Running 5.2
>SMC NE 2000 compatible card
>486 DX 4-100
>48 meg ram
>
>
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