Do you have a system set up as a DNS server, on your network, that your internal computers use?
If so, set up, on that DNS server, a zone for emeraldbiostructures.com, and a reverse zone for 230.168.192.in-addr.arpa. On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Hidong Kim wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problems with name resolution. We have several machines on > an NIS network. The NIS server is Red Hat 7.2, and the rest of the > machines are all Red Hat 8.0. Each machine has been assigned a local > static IP address. /etc/NIS/hosts on the NIS server looks like this: > > 192.168.230.200 sulaco.emeraldbiostructures.com sulaco > 192.168.230.201 ripley.emeraldbiostructures.com ripley > 192.168.230.202 jonesy.emeraldbiostructures.com jonesy > 192.168.230.203 iris.emeraldbiostructures.com iris > 192.168.230.205 kcsa.emeraldbiostructures.com kcsa > > > The machines can be pinged by just their short names. You can also ssh > to a machine by its short name. But if you try to point a browser to a > machine's short name or even its FQDN, it says that the requested URL > can't be found. If you point a browser to the machine's local IP > address, then you get the home page. Some of these Linux machines, like > ripley, are Samba servers. From a Windows machine, in Internet > Explorer, I can point the browser to just "ripley", and it gets there. > But on all of the Linux machines, you have to use the IP addresses. I > think /etc/resolv.conf is OK since I can browse the outisde Internet > just fine. It's only with the internal Linux machines where we have > problems with name resolution. Thanks for any suggestions, > > > > Hidong > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
