Cannot ping Linux / UNIX / Windows server by name but can ping by its IP address

in CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, FreeBSD, HP-UX Unix, Linux, Networking, Solaris-Unix, Suse, Troubleshooting, UNIX, Windows 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:

=> Linux DNS Client Configuration

=> Solaris DNS Client Configuration

Posted by: Vivek Gite

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3 comment

Raju says:
October 9, 2007 at 3:04 pm
thank you very much for this info
kannan says:
November 14, 2007 at 1:52 am
how to config dns for linux system
suresh says:
May 22, 2009 at 6:43 am
Hi
can we ping a windows supplicant to a linux authetication server ???
Suresh

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