[ale] Resolving

[Paul Kinsley]

You need to use ping -n to prevent ping from performing name resoluton.
Pinging by IP address still involves a lookup.  I dont know why, but
have seen it happen.




Joseph Andrew Knapka wrote:
> Jason Lynn wrote:
> 
>>Thanks!  As for nsswitch.conf... I'll need to check that when I get home.  I
>>do not wait for dns to timeout... after about 20 sec my patience grows thin.
>>  :)  I will read that man page.  I know that I was definitely unable to
>>ping (within 20 sec) my local interface eth0 with an ip of 192.168.0.1.  I
>>thought it was strange also, but I suppose I could have my nsswitch
>>misconfigured.  I'll try and wait for the timeout.
>>
> 
> If you ping by IP address (eg "ping 192.168.0.1") then no
> variety of name resolution is involved. If you can't ping
> local interfaces by IP, you have non-DNS-related problems
> (eg, driver not available, interface not properly configured,
> or something of that nature). What does "ifconfig eth0"
> say?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 



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Paul Kinsley
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paul at motionrealityinc.com
http://motionrealityinc.com

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