-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/25/08 08:51, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi! >> Servers work like a charm, but i am not able to ping them by hostname. > > Thanks Bob: >> You may need to add relevant entries to the hosts file in each windows > machine > > ...and Damon for yours replies >> If you put those entries into another hosts hosts file, then you can > ping this >> host from that box by the above hosts names. > ... >> Windows also has a host file. Edit that as well. > > Yes, i know, if i modify hosts file both in linux and in windows machine > i will not have more problems to ping those 2 new Debian servers. > But there are a lot of people (and computer) that use services running > on those servers. > I hope there's a way to to the job wothout modify every single users > machine. > > Or not? :-D
Well sure there is. For example, how does your computer know the IP address of www.google.com? How do the existing machines know each other's names? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhiT0UACgkQS9HxQb37XmfKqwCfc8bNQmw7hVLh69hCNV0kWS5Q 868AoL6W1IpOkjVa8KWiELx+aBQBThy7 =t43o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]