i've started using lenny for my work pc and there's a feature of the windows ping.exe that i'm trying to find in linux.
something in windows i've used a lot is pinging by hostname to find the ip of the pc i'm looking for. a lot of things i've been doing require me to enter the ip not hostname. i've looked at arping, sing and oping but i haven't had any luck accepting anything other than ip's. all i'm looking for is something along the lines of ~$ hostping -usehostnames computerhostname from the commandline. i'll be using this laptop in a lot of different offices so will i have to add dns info to my /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf for each network? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
