sounds like a DNS issue, run a reverse lookup on the IP and see what comes out. you can also add this line to your /etc/resolv.conf
domain yourdomain.com that will cause the system to search the local domain when you ping a hostname. for me if i pinged the host galactica, resolv.conf would automatically try galactica.firetrail.com but it looks more to be a DNS thing. the hostname may not be a valid (Domain Name) host. that can be checked by trying to resolve the full host.domain.com. if it resolves the problem is on the client machine(the /etc/resolv.conf shit) nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, J.M. "Jersey" Miszczyk wrote: > Hi there :), > > I just installed DHCP client on Debian slink machine. It works almost > fine.... it just does not pick up the host name :(. It is seen on the > network by its IP address only. If I ping it by the name from the local > console it responds that the host name is not known (I removed its static > IP entry from the "hosts" file). > Any suggestions will be appreciated :) > > Best regards > "Jersey" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
