[ale] Networking problem.

[Robert Heaven]

Because of the way you've got your /etc/resolv.conf structured, when you
type "ping oboe" it actually tries to ping oboe.machturtle.com but the
real name is oboe.corbin.machturtle.com so it can't find it.

Your confusion about the "host oboe" is because your resolver first
tries oboe.machturtle.com then it tries oboe.corbin.machturtle.com and
finds a match and returns the address. (do a host -a oboe and see for
yourself)


On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 06:21, David Corbin wrote:

> I don't understand this behavior :  As you can see below, I can resolve "oboe" 
> using 'host'. I can ping it if I give it a fully qualified domain name.  
> However, ping says "oboe" is an unknown host.  In what *may* be a related 
> problem, when I ssh to this machine, there is an unusual delay before I 
> connected/authenticatec - about 10 seconds more than for other local systems.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] host oboe
> oboe.corbin.machturtle.com has address 192.168.26.150
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] ping oboe.corbin.machturtle.com
> PING oboe.corbin.machturtle.com (192.168.26.150): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.26.150: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.5 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.26.150: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.5 ms
> 
> --- oboe.corbin.machturtle.com ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 0.5/0.5/0.5 ms
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] ping oboe
> ping: unknown host oboe
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log] cat /etc/resolv.conf
> nameserver 192.168.26.150
> domain machturtle.com corbin.machturtle.com
> [dcorbin at matrix /var/log]
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