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wyvis
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Joined: 03 Dec 2002
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 Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 5:07 pm Post subject: Mr314 + Gentoo DNS Problem |
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I decided that it was about time I gave Linux a go and a friend recomended Gentoo. So, I have been running it on my laptop for a month and I am impressed.
I have one problem though...I have two other boxes (windoze 2K) and all three machines were connected via a Netger MR314 router. All the machines can connect to the network (with DHCP assigning IPs) and each can then ping the others by IP.
However, although I can ping the 2K boxes by hostname from each other, I can't ping the laptop by hostname. Also, the laptop cannot ping any of the windoze boxes by hostname (or itself). I checked the router's DHCP table and the laptop's hostname is registered correctly.
Can anyone give me any pointers to fix this?
A few outputs that may or may not help....
| Quote: | ifconfig
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5B:D4:93:81
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:201 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:291 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:69624 (67.9 Kb) TX bytes:31930 (31.1 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2372 (2.3 Kb) TX bytes:2372 (2.3 Kb)
netstat -v
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Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0
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kashani
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Joined: 02 Sep 2002
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:15 am Post subject: dns and wins |
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Most likely the Windows machines are using Wins to find each other and not DNS. The simple option would be to add each server into you /etc/hosts file. If you wanted to get more complicated you might be able to use Samba to resolve wins... I have no idea how or if that would really work. 
kashani
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