Thread: Can\'t ping to a linux box by its machine name.

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Old 05-15-2007, 12:37 PM
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Yup you need to setup DNS server. If you have just 1-2 computers, you can do static mapping by adding hosts to /etc/hosts file and you can ping by names.
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