On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:33:57PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > northern snowfall wrote: > >> (which rules out DNS problems). > > > >Not unless he does "ping -n". If not, the A will still attempt > >to be resolved. > >Don > > Good point, I stand corrected. > > -- > Bill Moran
I must be missing something. Don is right, the manpage clearly states that the -n option sould supress symbolic name lookups, but no matter how hard I try I cannot elicit a DNS query out of ping. I run named on my local network. First, I pinged an IP address that I knew my system would not have cached anywhere - no DNS lookup. Then I disabled named and tried again with a few new IP addresses - still no DNS queries. Then I even went so far as to rename my hosts file. At this point I couldn't even ping 'localhost' by name. Each time, the ping worked fine and never once issued a DNS query - I was watching with ethereal. Is the manpage incorrect? Further, the OP's gateway machine should have no effect whatsoever on his ability to ping another machine directly connected to his switch. This problem is mighty strange. Nathan -- GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc
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