Cannot ping Linux / UNIX / Windows server by name but can ping by its IP address
Posted by Vivek Gite
[Last updated: October 8, 2007]
Q. I have Debian Linux server in remote data center. I can ping server by its IP but not by hostname such as server.domain.com. How do I ping server by hostname?
A. This is client side DNS problem. All you have to do is setup correct DNS server:
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Tags: dns_client, dns_problem, hostname, Linux, ping_server_by_name, Solaris
October 9th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
thank you very much for this info
November 14th, 2007 at 1:52 am
how to config dns for linux system