Re: Can't ping by hostname from clients - was Which distro to switch an FC3 samba server to?

Qian Qiao wrote:

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:36:34 -0500, A. Rick Anderson <arick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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DNS not working? Does any of the client machines resolve proper
domains correctly?

Try the following things on your windows clients:
1. Open up a command prompt
2. run nslookup
3. server 192.168... (the ip address of you samba and bind server,
can't remember, :D)
4. gmail.google.com
5. If the above resolves correctly, try the other machine names, like aman
6. Tell me what happens.


From Anar, they resolve:

-bash-3.00$ nslookup

server 192.168.0.2

Default server: 192.168.0.2
Address: 192.168.0.2#53

From a DOS window on a client pc it fails:

Z:\>nslookup
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.2: Non-existent domain
Default Server:  net0116008.direcpc.com
Address:  198.77.116.8

server anar

*** Can't find address for server anar: Non-existent domain

quit

Server:  net0116008.direcpc.com
Address:  198.77.116.8

*** net0116008.direcpc.com can't find quit: Non-existent domain

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A. Rick Anderson