On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Patrick Ng wrote:
> on the windows machine
> i did :
>
> in the windows directory i looked of the hosts file and add the two lines
> as above
>
>
>
> My problem is that I cannot telnet doing the following from the windows
> box:
>
> telnet kro.intnet.mu but can do so only with telnet 192.168.10.1
That is a windows problem, not a Linux problem. Try a Windows network setup
newsgroup or mailing list.
> I wonder why i cannot use the hostname of the linux machine cause on the
> linux box i can do a ping 192.168.10.2 or ping amd or ping amd.intnet.mu
> and it associates the name with the ip address.
Why does Linux do something right and Windows not? You will be asking yourself
that question often, I suspect. :)
> Further more, why does i have to configure the eth0 everytime i reboot my
> linux box?
Yes. The kernel holds this configuration in memory, so it does not persist
across a reboot.
But those configuration statements belong in a boot script; nobody does them
by hand.
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