[ale] Something is Fishy About My Network

[Kenneth Ratliff]

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On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:

> It looks like you don't have any DNS service running at all. Ping IP
> address works but ping by name fails.
>
> Multiple ways to fix this:
>
> Set up fixed IP address and add /etc/hosts records (easy)
> Set up DNS services using your router (not so easy)

It sounds more like something is hijacking his DNS than he doesn't  
have it active. He mentioned other computers on the network, so I  
assume he has some form of local DNS running, though it's probably the  
router setting itself up as a caching name server, and if they're all  
windows boxes, I'd imagine they're using WINS to be able to ping each  
other by hostname.

I had something similar with one of my first installs of etch though,  
and it turned out Avahi daemon was hijacking my DNS for that box. Once  
I turned it off, my DNS worked perfectly

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