On Fri, 19 May 2000, Chun Meng Wong wrote:
> That's the prob. At the hosts file, give a name (any name) to 192.168.1.3.
I'm sorry, I don't understand why.
If I disconnect PC1 from the outside world and have 4 PCs with private ip
addresses, all of them on the same coax.
Shouldn't ip to mac addresses be mapped by ARP, keeping some kind of
table in kernel space for future calls? Why would I need a DNS?
This is what I understood, but I'm quite new to this and may be completely
wrong.
Anyway, I'm having new experiences. Yesterday everything worked fine for
a while, but suddenly pings started to show high variations, from 4000ms
to 0.5ms. Following Becker's advice I'll burn this coax cable and buy
baseT stuff.
> Wong.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: FREYTES, Matias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 10:13 AM
> > To: Chun Meng Wong
> > Subject: RE: ping problems on a 4 PC eth
> >
> >
> > At 10:00 a.m. 19/05/00 +0800, you wrote:
> > >
> > >just a thought here. I used to have problems with pings in rh
> > 6.2. Actually
> > >the prob was DNS. A quick fix to check is to give a name of ip
> > dest machine
> > >at your hosts file. So if you want to ping host A from Host B,
> > at the host B
> > >/etc/hosts file, just give a name for Hosts A. If not, you'll see huge a
> > >delay. And if you actually remove the hostname from hosts file, you would
> > >not be able to even ping the hosts own interface. A permanent
> > soln would be
> > >to point your resolv.conf file to a DNS but make sure it can
> > reach this DNS
> > >or else same prob again. :)
> >
> > I�n not using domain names, just dot decimal ip addresses:
> > ping 192.168.1.3
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