On Tue, 31 Mar 2020, Divine Tanyingoh wrote:

On centos 6 I cannot ping the hostname and get a
reply without first resolving in the /etc/hosts file by adding a new entry:
192.168.0.47  server1.example.com.

But for centos 7 I am able to ping the hostname and get a reply even when I
have not made any changes to the /etc/hosts file. Why is there this
difference between centos 6 vs 7.

Sounds like mDNS/Avahi is not being used/referenced on/by 6.


/mark
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