Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 11:36:17PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:28:48PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM wrote: [...] > > > Hope that helps. > > > > Not particularly. > > > > Try this: > > > > sudo apt install tshark > > sudo tshark -f 'port 53

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:28:48PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Here are the output of the cmnds that tomas suggested. > > ... with all the good stuff elided Sad, but True > > Hope that helps. > > Not particularly. > > Try this: > > sudo a

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Lee
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM wrote: > > Hi, > > Here are the output of the cmnds that tomas suggested. ... with all the good stuff elided > Hope that helps. Not particularly. Try this: sudo apt install tshark sudo tshark -f 'port 5353' -c 4 -N dnt & ping -c 4 whatever.local At least for

Re: Is my locate broken?

2025-04-27 Thread Haines Brown
The second tine I ran $ updatedb perfored as it should now it serves to locate a file. Thankd for the help -- Haines Brown

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
On Monday, April 28th, Timothy M Butterworth timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com wrote: > Are you able to ping by IP address instead of host name? Yes, I am able to ping other machines in LAN through IPs. > Are you able to resolve the DNS name with dig? dig hostname.local NO, QUERY: 1, AN

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently installed Debian on my old desktop, before this it was running > Ubuntu. So my issue is before installing debian I was able to ping me other > machine using ```ping hostname.local```, but after installing debian 12 I > am not able t

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:56:26PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > Hi, > > Here are the output of the cmnds that tomas suggested. Thanks for those. Another one which might be of interest (I suggest you don't obfuscate the IP addresses; otherwise it's on you to interpret them)

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Marco Moock
On 27.04.2025 16:30 Uhr mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > No, [hostname].local is not in /etc/hosts, So does in ubuntu machine. > As far as I know avahi should be resolving these. This is the case. Resolve should be done via mdns, which is handled by Avahi. Please use wireshark and sni

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Marco Moock
On 27.04.2025 16:30 Uhr Andy Smith wrote: > Okay so I see why OP was saying so much about mdns and avahi. The > .local hostnames are meant to be autodiscovered, not present in hosts > file or DNS as such, and that's what the mdns4_minimal is for in > /etc/nsswitch.conf. mdns4 limits that to IPv4,

Re: Is my locate broken?

2025-04-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:32:45 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > I know locate can be slow, but I waited a sufficient time. I suspect > locate has to build a database, but my system has been running a week. If things are working correctly, and you installed plocate rather than locate, you should see som

Re: Is my locate broken?

2025-04-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:32:45 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > I did a new installation of Debian and installed the locate pachage. > But when I use it, nothing is retured: Did you install locate, or plocate? The latter is much faster, so preferable. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https:

Re: Is my locate broken?

2025-04-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:32:45 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > I know locate can be slow, but I waited a sufficient time. I suspect > locate has to build a database, but my system has been running a week. I don't know how often it rebuilds the database. I suspect daily. However, you can run it manuall

Re: Is my locate broken?

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 01:32:45PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I did a new installation of Debian and installed the locate pachage. But when > I use it, > nothing is retured: > > $ which tlmgr > /usr/bin/tlmgr > > $ locate tlmgr > [nothing returnsd] > >

Is my locate broken?

2025-04-27 Thread Haines Brown
I did a new installation of Debian and installed the locate pachage. But when I use it, nothing is retured: $ which tlmgr /usr/bin/tlmgr $ locate tlmgr [nothing returnsd] $ locate bin [isued to get a lot, nothing on this machine

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
Hi, Here are the output of the cmnds that tomas suggested. user@localhost:~$ip addr show 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forev

Re: Different Debian for different users

2025-04-27 Thread l0f4r0
Hi Stefan, 26 avr. 2025, 03:52 de monn...@iro.umontreal.ca: > Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it > and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in > another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system? > When you say "while" you mean "at th

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Joe
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:47:19 +0200 wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 09:30:43AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:57:55 + > > mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > > > > Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is > > > output I get when I pin

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 09:30:43AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:57:55 + > mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > > Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is output I > > get when I ping other machine: > > > > ping: [hostname].local: Name or

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:57:55 + mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is output I > get when I ping other machine: > > ping: [hostname].local: Name or service not known. where [hostname] > is a placeholder. No, no. Please show u

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 10:09:34AM -0400, Eben King wrote: > On 4/27/25 09:57, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > ping: [hostname].local: Name or service not known. where [hostname] is a > > placeholder. > > Is [hostname].local in /etc/hosts or otherwise findable by DNS? Okay so

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Eben King
On 4/27/25 09:57, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: Hi, Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is output I get when I ping other machine: ping: [hostname].local: Name or service not known. where [hostname] is a placeholder. Is [hostname].local in /etc/hosts or

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
Hi, Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is output I get when I ping other machine: ping: [hostname].local: Name or service not known. where [hostname] is a placeholder. Thanks. On Sunday, Andy Smith - a...@strugglers.net wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 11:24:2

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
Hi, No, [hostname].local is not in /etc/hosts, So does in ubuntu machine. As far as I know avahi should be resolving these. Thanks On Sunday, April 27th, Eben King - e...@gmx.us wrote: > > On 4/27/25 09:57, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry I didn't ment

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 11:24:25AM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > my issue is before installing debian I was able to ping me other > machine using ```ping hostname.local```, but after installing debian > 12 I am not able to do that. Nowhere in your email have you shown t

Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
Hi all, I recently installed Debian on my old desktop, before this it was running Ubuntu. So my issue is before installing debian I was able to ping me other machine using ```ping hostname.local```, but after installing debian 12 I am not able to do that. I am not expert in computer so kindly h