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Re: ping hostnames ala windows ping.exe?



On Sat,11.Oct.08, 18:57:40, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:31:45AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 
> > $ host bixi
> > bixi has address 192.168.77.76
> 
> This only resolves host names through DNS. e.g. ignores your hosts file.
 
Ah, it works on my machine because I have a local installation of 
dnsmasq ;)

Regards,
Andrei
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