Subject: Fail to ping guest hostname
From: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:01:28 +0800 (CST)

Hi folks,


Host - Debian Etch


[Host]$ ping -c3 vserver1.satimis.com
ping: unknown host vserver1.satimis.com


ping its ip works

[Host]$ ping -c3 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=0.027 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.111: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.022 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.111: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.022 ms

--- 192.168.0.111 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.022/0.023/0.027/0.006 ms
* end *


[Guest]
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 202.14.67.4
nameserver 202.14.67.14
nameserver 192.168.1.1


$ hostname
$ hostname -f
vserver1.satimis.com


$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain  localhost
192.168.0.1     vserver1.satimis.com

::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
* end *


Please advise where shall I check?  How to fix the problem?  TIA


B.R.
Stephen L




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