On Monday 16 Jun 2003 1:57 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:17:09 -0400 > > "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > ping darkforce > > ping darkforce2 > > ping darkforce3 > > > > and it works fine. I don't have to do the IP address. > > well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I > haven't delved into it too much in Linux, but I believe Samba takes > care of that. Correct me if I am wrong. I also can ping by name or > IP, though I have no DNS (which I believe actually has nothing to > do with it, that's for FQDN, ie. internet, not LAN) server running. > So when Ronald pings darkforce2, how do you think it knows which box to find? There has to be a name server somewhere. Mine is on my router, but it could just as well be on this box.
Anne
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