I can ping an Internet address by IP address without problem. When I try to ping by hostname I receive the error message "unknown host."
I can ping other machines local to my network by both IP address and hostname without problem. One of the other machines in the network (Sam, address 192.168.1.2, RH 7.3) has no problems when pinging the Internet, either by IP address or hostname, and it can ping the Suse box without problem.
My Internet access is through a NAT gateway/firewall box with address 192.168.1.1 (Bill) on the internal net card, and whatever address assigned to tthe external card by my ISP using DHCP. From the firewall box, I can ping the Suse box, the RH box, and the Internet using both IP address and hostname, all without problems,
The configuration files for the Suse box are set up as follows:
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.1 bill.mynet.net bill
192.168.1.2 sam.mynet.net sam
192.168.1.33 bob.mynet.net bob # special IPv6 addresses
::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
fe00::0 ipv6-localnet
ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters/etc/host.conf
order hosts, bind
multi on/etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 216.229.33.250
nameserver 216.229.33.251
search local local/etc/nsswitch.conf
passwd: compat
group: compat
hosts: files dns
networks: files dns
services: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
netgroup: files
publickey: files
bootparams: files
automount: files nis
aliases: filesThe output of netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt face 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Can anyone help me figure out what is going on?
BOF
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