Re: zlinux suse12 cant ping hostname

2016-08-04 Thread Paul Flint
Veerendra, Mark bring up an interesting if annoying point. Security zealots often turn off the ICMP service that supports ping. One trick is to use the Google DNS server which is 8.8.8.8. Try to ping 8.8.8.8 $ ping 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icm

Re: zlinux suse12 cant ping hostname

2016-08-04 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/4/2016 at 12:41 PM, Veerendra H wrote: > Hi, > > We have Suse12 installed on one of our zlinux systems. Cant get to ping the > host name of any servers but i can ping the IPs. i checked around on > /etc/sysconfig/network but didnt find a file to update to change the DNS > resolver. > >

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2016-08-04 Thread Paul Flint
Veerendra I sent you commands to run from the terminal that would help to troubleshoot your issue with the Linux guest running on your zLinux system. I predicated each command with "sudo", which runs them at root privilege. Running at root privilege lets me know if you have root on the system,

Re: zlinux suse12 cant ping hostname

2016-08-04 Thread Mohammad Zachariah
Are they ping-able/reachable ? Best Regards, Mohammad Y. Zachariah System Support Representative , Linux Support To open or view an IBM PMR electronically http://www.ibm.com/support/servicerequest/help/srHelp.action

Re: zlinux suse12 cant ping hostname

2016-08-04 Thread Paul Flint
Dear Dave, Yea, but I was just making certain that they ran. Some systems limit access in some configurations. I mostly use Debian, and in fact I was concerned that SLEZ or the Hat might not support sudo in some configurations. In any event the data from these two commands might really help

Re: zlinux suse12 cant ping hostname

2016-08-04 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/4/2016 at 02:25 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: > Unless someone has inexplicably decided to make these commands different > on z than they have been on a hundred other platforms for decades, you > don't need to run them as root, FYI. Only certain parameters require root authority. The command

Re: zlinux suse12 cant ping hostname

2016-08-04 Thread Dave McGuire
Unless someone has inexplicably decided to make these commands different on z than they have been on a hundred other platforms for decades, you don't need to run them as root, FYI. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA On August 4, 2016 2:24:10 PM Paul Flint wr

Re: zlinux suse12 cant ping hostname

2016-08-04 Thread Paul Flint
Veerendra, Could you please run the following commands and send the result to the list? It will help troubleshoot this issue. COMMAND: sudo /sbin/ifconfig -a sudo /bin/netstat Thanks, Flint On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Jake Anderson wrote: Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 23:18:06 +0530 From: Jake Anderso

Re: zlinux suse12 cant ping hostname

2016-08-04 Thread Jake Anderson
What about your Ethernet? On Aug 4, 2016 10:32 PM, "Veerendra H" wrote: > Hi Marcy, > > Thanks for the reply. Yes we have name server entry in there. > > Regards, > Kumar > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Marcy Cortes < > marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com > > wrote: > > > Do you have nameserver e

Re: zlinux quesitons

2016-08-04 Thread Michael MacIsaac
The environment variable AUTHENTICATE_UID is set after successful authentication (as with Apache on any platform). -Mike M On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Veerendra H wrote: > Hi, > > On a zlinux guest, we need to determine the identity of users accessing our > Apache webserver. Any help

Re: zlinux suse12 cant ping hostname

2016-08-04 Thread Veerendra H
Hi Marcy, Thanks for the reply. Yes we have name server entry in there. Regards, Kumar On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > Do you have nameserver entries in your /etc/resolv.conf? > > Can you ping them? > > > > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LIN

zlinux quesitons

2016-08-04 Thread Veerendra H
Hi, On a zlinux guest, we need to determine the identity of users accessing our Apache webserver. Any help on this? We currently have NTLM authentication working in this server. Is NTLM considered secure enough, or are there any other better options in securing source codes. Please advise. Re

Re: zlinux suse12 cant ping hostname

2016-08-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
Do you have nameserver entries in your /etc/resolv.conf? Can you ping them? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Veerendra H Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2016 9:42 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] zlinux suse12 cant p

zlinux suse12 cant ping hostname

2016-08-04 Thread Veerendra H
Hi, We have Suse12 installed on one of our zlinux systems. Cant get to ping the host name of any servers but i can ping the IPs. i checked around on /etc/sysconfig/network but didnt find a file to update to change the DNS resolver. I updated the /etc/resolv.conf with our domain name but still can