[PLUG] Can't ping under Ubuntu Intrepid

Michael michael at jamhome.us
Tue Apr 28 16:31:02 UTC 2009


Tim Wescott wrote:
> Here's what happens: I'm at thishere, and I know that thatthere is on
> and on the network.
> I do "ping thatthere" and I get told "unknown host thatthere".

thatthere is not in your DNS or /etc/hosts file.

Try pinging it by its known IP address to confirm.
Then either plug it into DNS or /etc/hosts

Note, if your search order in /etc/resolv.conf doesn't specify a search order
then you'd need to specify a fully qualified name for thatthere


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