> > After I put the entry in the host file I was
> > able to ping the address, "10.10.10.20."
>
> That's really odd, the hosts file shouldn't matter for that, maybe I
> misinterpreted your first posting about the GUI networking utility.
Just a note along these lines... I think ping has changed a little. It
seems with RH 7.0 you need the -n option to keep it from trying to reverse
the IP address and get a domain name. If you don't use -n and your machine
cannot reach a DNS for some reason, ping seems to wait for the resolution
to time out before it starts.
I've not researched this, but I've observed similar. Adding an entry to
/etc/hosts makes it "work" because your machine checks that file before
trying to contact a DNS.
I hope that helps in some way.
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