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Old 15-05-2007, 01:43 AM
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Default Can't ping to a linux box by its machine name.
Hi everyone,

I got an issue with my SuSe10 linux machine for a long time, and I still can't figure out the problem. All my machines (Windows and Linux) are plugged into the LinkSys Router. Everytime I try to ping/ssh to my linux box from my windows machine by using the machine name, it never works and saying something like request time out.... . However, I can ssh and ftp to my linux by using its IP address, and it works just fine. (Note: everything is done on LAN only) So, I am thinking about the DNS, but I don't know anything about DNS in linux. I really appreciate that if anyone can help me with this. Thank you so much.
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