Without knowing the distribution and vintage of your system, I can only
guess. Do you have a file /etc/nsswitch.conf on your system? If yes, does it
include the line:
hosts: files dns
somewhere? If not, your system will not check /etc/hosts to do name resolution.
At 09:05 AM 6/29/00 -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
>My sad tale continues !
>
>Having managed, thanks to your help, to configure eth0, i find I can
>ping the Windoze boxes on my net with
>
> ping 192.168.0.X
>
>but that trying ping boxname gives me nothing;
>
>I have checked that my /etc/hosts file has a line
>
>192.168.0.2 boxname 0 #0
>
>What else could / should I look for that is missing ?
--
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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