F8 Network Woe
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Dec 13 05:28:08 UTC 2007
Tim:
>> I can plug a box into my network, give it the IP 192.168.1.6, but not
>> bother to put any entries for it on the DNS server nor any hosts file.
>> It'll still be useable on the network, but no other machine will be able
>> to dig, host, or nslookup, it. And it won't be able to do some of those
>> checks on itself. Being able to ping it would depend on its
>> configuration.
Aaron Konstam:
> What you are saying is true except the machine should respond to its
> own ip address. It is certainly responding when he tries to set up the
> network.
That depends on what you mean by "responding". dig, host, or nslookup
*can* fail on a machine researching its own address.
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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
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