Subject: Re: [vserver] Fail to ping guest hostname
From: Gilles Sadowski <gilles@harfang.homelinux.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:13:29 +0200

Hi.

> 
> 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 *
> 

File "/etc/hosts" (on the host system) might be missing a line such as:

192.168.0.111   vserver1.satimis.com        vserver1


Best,
Gilles