Hello,Windows is most likely resolving the short name using netbios. You can have linux boxes do the same thing by installing and configuring the Samba server and/or Samba client. The simpler way is to just add the ip addresses, FQDN, and short name to the "/etc/hosts" file on your linux boxes...
We're having trouble getting machine name resolution from an DNS server. If we try to ping, for example, a machine named Mach1, we get an "unknown host Mach1" error. If we ping the FQDN, Mach1.domainname.com, we get resolution. Oddly, windows boxes can resolve the machine name, from a dos prompt, without the domain suffix (No WINS being used either).
What can we do to get machine name resolution, internally, without the domain name from our Linux boxes?
drjung
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