On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:08, Roger Searle wrote: > >From this linux box I am unable to ping a machine on the local network > > by name, getting "unknown host" returned. Pings to an ip address are > fine, as are pings to machines by name from a windows box.
If you are running samba (at least nmbd) then you can run # nmblookup hostname which will get you the IP address. Hmmm, so how can this info be used instead of DNS?? A cron job to convert the results into a hosts file? ==== What about zeroconf/Bonjour i.e multicast DNS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf It looks like it should be the answer, but as for the practicalities of actually getting it working ... -- Eliot
