Re: ip routing

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

Sounds to me like you haven't got DNS set up. Having HOSTS etc. on your
linux machine just means that the linux box knows which machines are which
- you'll either need to put a HOSTS file on your Win machine, or configure
one of your servers as a DNS server and use that. There's a good howto on
DNS stuff. You'll want to lookup named, and stuff like that. There's also
some good basic cut-down DNS daemons available on freshmeat - I generally
use those for small networks, usually a bit faster ;)

Cheers,

Alex.


On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Ian Wright wrote:

> Hi Russ,
> 
> Where are the files you altered in windoze? I suspect the problem I am still
> having may be related to this. In my case I can ping around the network
> using the IP numbers but, for some reason, the windoze box won't recognise
> one of the linux boxes by name. As far as I can see all the 'hosts,
> hostname, hosts.allow' etc. files on the linux box are set up right so it
> may just be windoze being awkward. (Windoze does talk to the other linux
> boxes by name, its just this one it has sent to Coventry!)
>  re: you p.s. - if you don't have the kernel source and kernel headers files
> in the right directory the 'make menuconfig' (or 'make xconfig' as I use)
> can't work as it has nothing to work with. Get fresh sources from kernel.org
> and start anew.
> 
> Ian
> 
> --
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield  UK
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: rush <russ [at] m0bvl.fsnet.co.uk>
> To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
> Sent: 19 April 2000 18:59
> Subject: ip routing
> 
> 
> > hello every one
> >   Well finaly got this router working .And guess what nothing was wrong
> with
> > c2 ,for thos who read prev letter's, wait for it
> > ...................................it was c3 the windows machine that was
> > not using the gate way on c2 to talt to c1 so quick edit to route table on
> > windows machine and hey presto every thing pings on local net
> > yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeha!!!!!!!!
> > d
> > ps this   'make menuconfig' , 'make config' does not work on my machine so
> > am now loading new kernel and going to patch
> > Thanks for all who replied
> >    Russ now with much healthier brain .ie no melt down Cheers
> >
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