On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:39:29AM -0700, Mike wrote: > At 07:23 PM 8/22/00 +0200, you wrote: > > >It seems classic resolver problem (register your win-machine in DNS or at > >least add to /etc/hosts file) :) > > > >Mirek > > It seems like a resolver problem to me as well but I'm not running a DNS > locally and I do have the local ip address of the windows machine in > /etc/hosts. In anything required in hosts besides a one line entry with > the ip address? > > >Triple-check your DNS resolution, particularly reverse resolution. > > resolv.conf is typical, with my remote dns entries in it. Hosts has the ip > addresses of the windows machines. What else does checking the DNS > resolution involve?
Usually it's a problem in the inclusion of nameservers (do you include
localhost?), and the "order" directive in /etc/host.conf:
order hosts,bind
...particularly if you're using /etc/hosts.
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