On Monday 16 June 2003 09:37 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> Well assuming you are using Dhcp then how are you managing to resolve the
> hostnames?
> When you ask to ping a host your system will first go to /etc/hosts to see
> if there is an entry there (that was a mistake in my original post. I said
> fstab by mistake) if there is no entry in hosts, it will go and ask the DNS
> server.
Thats the ticket, I do have IP addressess/aliases in my /etc/hosts file. Here
it is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.100 darkforce.ky.org darkforce
192.168.0.101 darkforce2.ky.org darkforce2
192.168.0.102 darkforce3.ky.org darkforce3
> If you have a router assigning IP addresses then the router might be able
> to tell you, but I have no router so my question is how can I get my linux
> gateway to resolve them?
>
> derek
I also do have a Dlink router since I got broadband...
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