On Vi, 27 iul 12, 09:45:02, Kent West wrote: > Why can I ping the hostname, but not the fully-qualified domain name > of a box? > > > westk@westek:~$ ping k1000 > PING k1000.acu.local (150.252.149.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 150.252.149.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=62 time=0.128 ms > ^C64 bytes from 150.252.149.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=62 time=0.138 ms > > --- k1000.acu.local ping statistics --- > 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 5002ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.128/0.133/0.138/0.005 ms > > > westk@westek:~$ ping k1000.acu.local > ping: unknown host k1000.acu.local > > > westk@westek:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf > # Generated by NetworkManager > domain acu.local > search acu.local As far as I know "local" should be the domain name, not "xxxx.local", but for zeroconf you wouldn't need to specify it anyway... > nameserver 150.252.134.8 > nameserver 150.252.134.159 > nameserver 150.252.228.8 > nameserver 150.252.135.4 Is this system configured by DHCP? Are these your machines or your ISPs? > westk@westek:~$ nslookup k1000 > Server: 150.252.134.8 > Address: 150.252.134.8#53 > > Name: k1000.acu.local > Address: 150.252.149.1 > > westk@westek:~$ nslookup k1000.acu.local > Server: 150.252.134.8 > Address: 150.252.134.8#53 > > Name: k1000.acu.local > Address: 150.252.149.1 > > > I googled for this problem and found instructions to change 1 to 0 > in the /etc/default/avahi-daemon file (after which I did a "sudo > /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart" command), but that didn't solve > the problem (so I put the /etc/default/avahi-daemon file back to the > way it was). Normally "local" is used for mdns a.k.a. zeroconf, for which you definitely need avahi-daemon running. Please post also your /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch.conf and output of 'dpkg -l *avahi*' and 'dpkg -l *mdns*' Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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