unable to ping LAN

[Thomas Kaiser]

Marty Landman wrote:
> I have a new  2.6.20-15-server #2 installation which seems to be 
> working pretty well. I can ssh in and out, access the web and access 
> samba shares from the win xp workstation which is also the gateway.
> 
> What I can't do is ping any box on the lan by name other than the 
> gateway. Can ping by ip though. Didn't think hosts had to be set up - 
> want hosts for the lan to be resolved by the gateway.
> 
> marty at mandelbaum:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> search face2interface.net
> nameserver 192.168.0.1
> marty at mandelbaum:~$ ping -c2 mrwilhelm
> ping: unknown host mrwilhelm
> marty at mandelbaum:~$ ping -c2 192.168.0.111
> PING 192.168.0.111 (192.168.0.111) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.111: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=9.36 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.111: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.413 ms
> 
> Marty
> 
> 

Do you have a name server running on your gateway (192.168.0.1)?

If yes, configure it ;-)

Thomas


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