Hi

From some strange resons i can not ping my Wwwserver pc on LAN with 2 machines one Linux Mandrake 9 and 2nd Win2K. In /etc/hosts i got:
127.0.0.1 localhost
only one entry, Is that corect? I read few thread about similar issue and that file had many entries each one for seperate Machin on LAN. Shoul I munualy enter the 2nd pc IP there? or shoul my Linux Mach. enter the entry by itself or should it broadcat the LAN for the IP ?


Help could be usefull from you .

Thanks


I will watch the thread.

Thanks guys

If you are behind a DHCP server, it should set that up on it's own. I'm pretty sure the /etc/hosts/ file will read "localhost" when it cannot get a address from a DHCP server or a name from a DNS server (correct me if I am wrong). You need to check out your "ifcfg-eth0" file for details regarding whether it is trying to use DHCP or not, and if not what the static IP is set to. I forget the directory, just "su root" and do "locate eth0". It should be /etc/network-scripts/...

Hi

You rock Man, You sound like you REALY know what you talking about. THX man. I have to go for shopping now cause they close at 9 supper market and when I come back i will check it out. But can say now that before everything was ok I didn't have to munualy enter Name and Its IP in host file. But now I have to in order to ping the other PC ( win2000) on my LAN. It should user broadcast addresss 192.168.1.255 if linux doesn't knwo the name, apperently it doesn't work the command now. Any other possiblility to check or any troubleshoots?

Thanks for all your hints.

Hi Zick,
first u check ur localseeting is coorect or not i mean ping to 127.0.0.1
Its working after u check it ur local linux maching ip.

I mean its firewall problem > pl checkit ur firewall settings
or use
IPTABLES -F



LINUX make impossible to possible

Sorry man but the command doesn't work on Mandrake 9.1 that you gave me. By the way I can ping lo (localhost) successfuly

uses DHCP
it`s the better way

DHCP command?

And what should I especialy pay attention to?

2nd of all, somebody told me there is something wrong with my firewall, where is firewall in Linux? where can I find it and who to fix it.

So many questions..

Thx all

visit
www.linuxajuda.com.br
there is many tutorials there
buts is in Portuguese