Hi,
I can't explain the following myself:
$ dig maroon
; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> maroon
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34832
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;maroon. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
maroon. 0 IN A 192.168.2.100
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.100#53(192.168.2.100)
;; WHEN: Wed Feb 16 22:16:20 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 40
-- dig knows the host maroon.
$ ping maroon
ping: unknown host maroon
-- yet ping doesn't know the host maroon.
What could be the reason?
Thanks
FYI:
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# for interface eth0
search local
nameserver 192.168.2.100
nameserver 192.168.2.1
nameserver 192.168.2.100
$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4d:b8:98:ef
inet addr:192.168.2.106 Bcast:192.168.2.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4dff:feb8:98ef/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:3085169 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2
TX packets:3707445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1244271976 (1.2 GB) TX bytes:2176532830 (2.1 GB)
Interrupt:43 Base address:0xc000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:232195 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:232195 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:21797691 (21.7 MB) TX bytes:21797691 (21.7 MB)
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