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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.

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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I tried to do the static mapping like you said, but somehow it's still not working yet. What I did is vi /etc/hosts and then insert my linux machine's name and IP address and save it.

192.168.1.146 cn-linux1

I still can't ping to it by the machine name. Can you please walk me through with step by step? I am linux newbie. Thank you very much for your time.

Cat you paste your /etc/nsswitch.conf file here?

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Hi,

Thanks a lot for your help. Here is what I got on my nsswitch.conf



login as: root
===> Welcome To Cuong's Linux Machine. Authorized Access Only ===>
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Have a lot of fun...
cn-linux1:~ # clear
cn-linux1:~ # cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be
# sorted with the most-used services at the beginning.
#
# The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an
# entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned
# up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason
# (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the
# next entry.
#
# Legal entries are:
#
# compat Use compatibility setup
# nisplus Use NIS+ (NIS version 3)
# nis Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP
# dns Use DNS (Domain Name Service)
# files Use the local files
# [NOTFOUND=return] Stop searching if not found so far
#
# For more information, please read the nsswitch.conf.5 manual page.
#

# passwd: files nis
# shadow: files nis
# group: files nis

passwd: compat
group: compat

hosts: files dns
networks: files dns

services: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
netgroup: files
publickey: files

bootparams: files
automount: files nis
aliases: files


cn-linux1:~ #

Your hosts and network is in correct order; you should able to ping or ssh using hostname cn-linux1

Try
Hope you have added correct IP and hostname in /etc/hosts file or just paste the same.

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Hi,

This is from cat/etc/hosts command on my linux. Please let me know what I need to do. The IP of my linux is 192.168.1.146. Thank you very much.


login as: root
===> Welcome To Cuong's Linux Machine. Authorized Access Only ===>
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Have a lot of fun...

cn-linux1:~ # cat /etc/hosts
#
# hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly
# used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
# On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
# "named" name server.
# Syntax:
#
# IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname
#
192.168.1.146 cn-linux1
127.0.0.1 localhost
# special IPv6 addresses
::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback

fe00::0 ipv6-localnet

ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts
192.168.1.146 cn-linux1.site cn-linux1
cn-linux1:~ #