On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:59:55 +0000, T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:20:58 +0000, T o n g wrote: > >> I can't explain the following myself: . . . >> >> -- dig knows the host maroon. >> -- yet ping doesn't know the host maroon. > > - It actually happens to all of my local hosts short names, unless the > domain name is appended. (...) What is the output of "hostname -f"? Greetings, -- Camaleón