-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2009-04-09 at 10:38 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Regardless, it doesn't work.
Does anyone out there have working aliases for hosts on their LANs? If so, is there a trick? Some sort of magic incantation? Maybe a blood sacrifice of some sort I must make? (My cat draws blood from time to time, if that would count.)
For some strange reason I don't know about, the command "host" queries the dns server first, or only, while ping and other commands queries the file hosts first. I have, in "/etc/hosts": 172.16.168.128 bambi (a small windows under vmware) then: cer@nimrodel:~> host bambi Host bambi not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) However: cer@nimrodel:~> ping bambi PING bambi (172.16.168.128) 56(84) bytes of data. - From 192.168.153.1: icmp_seq=1 Packet filtered - From 192.168.153.1 icmp_seq=1 Packet filtered - From 192.168.153.1 icmp_seq=2 Packet filtered (which is correct as vmware is not running now) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknfG6MACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VYaQCeJGt8CZ7SAJ80w59xf4q9B3M8 eyoAn3Og8X02qz3Aj85iATS1wRFdBkQU =/6lX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org