Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:07:29AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > 127.0.0.1 is a reserved IP always pointing to the local computer. You > could even do ping 127.0.0.1 on you windows machines to ping themselves > (another way is to use the reserved name l

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 02:58:52PM -0700, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > Jeffrey Barish wrote: > > > I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are > > connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine > > from another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: >

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-20 Thread Jeffrey Barish
Jeffrey Barish wrote: > I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are > connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine > from another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: > > ping windowsB > > from machine windowsA will elicit a response. I ca

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/12/03 10:01), John Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 23:01, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > > I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are > > connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine from > > another Windows machine simply by naming the destination:

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:01:39AM +0100, John Smith wrote: > Try filling > the /etc/hosts file on your linux machine. Or set up your own bind. This actually really helps if you have a network behind a modem, since you don't have to wait for cached l

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-20 Thread John Smith
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 23:01, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are > connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine from > another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: > > ping windowsB > > from machine windowsA w

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-19 Thread Kent West
Jeffrey Barish wrote: Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Jeffrey Barish wrote: I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine from another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: ping windowsB from machine

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:28:40PM -0700, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > Clearly, some > software somewhere in Windows-land is resolving the names for the > Windows machines. Why doesn't it do the same for the Linux machine? It's using NetBIOS name resoluti

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-19 Thread Jeffrey Barish
Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 at 22:01 GMT, Jeffrey Barish penned: >> I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are >> connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine >> from another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: >> >> pin

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-19 Thread Jeffrey Barish
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Jeffrey Barish wrote: > >> I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are >> connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine >> from another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: >> >> ping windowsB >> >> from machine wind

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-19 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Jeffrey Barish wrote: > I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are > connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine from > another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: > > ping windowsB > > from machine windowsA will elicit a response. I ca

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 at 22:01 GMT, Jeffrey Barish penned: > I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are > connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine > from another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: > > ping windowsB > > from machine wind

Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-19 Thread Jeffrey Barish
I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine from another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: ping windowsB from machine windowsA will elicit a response. I can also ping my Linux machine from a W