On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 23:16:47 +0100 "Michal 'vorner' Vaner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The [ X ] is a machine, ---- is a network and those C? are names of > the machine on the net. Now, ping C1 on the middle machine. Should it > ping itself on the right interface or look for the left computer? You > should at last have something like: > > [ Name1 ] C1 ---- C2 [ Name2 ] C1 ---- C2 [ Name3 ] /etc/resolv.conf has a search line in which you can set up domains to automatically append to hostnames that aren't fully qualified. If the subnets had different subdomain names, the order/presence/absence in resolv.conf would determin which C? was reached from Name2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list