unable to ping with hostname centos
I have installed centos 7 on virtualbox and connected it to bridged network.
I am able to ping other windows network machines with ip address but not by hostnames.
I am able to connect to internet also.
Tried so far:
installed winbind as in [url]https://askubuntu.com/questions/23011/why-can-i-ping-via-ip-address-but-not-hostname[/url]
which worked for ubuntu but not here.
added ‘wins’ where it says “hosts:” in /etc/nsswitch.conf
but no use
someone suggested me to add entries in hosts file manually. But it is not practical to populate all the machines entries.
Any suggestions please.
I am able to ping other windows network machines with ip address but not by hostnames.
I am able to connect to internet also.
Tried so far:
installed winbind as in [url]https://askubuntu.com/questions/23011/why-can-i-ping-via-ip-address-but-not-hostname[/url]
which worked for ubuntu but not here.
added ‘wins’ where it says “hosts:” in /etc/nsswitch.conf
but no use
someone suggested me to add entries in hosts file manually. But it is not practical to populate all the machines entries.
Any suggestions please.
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Posted by:
c.castellari
5 years ago
You're using a wrong dns. WINS is deprecated and isn't useful for you
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can you suggest any other alternative - ur00361883 5 years ago
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The only one answer is: use the same DNS. Or a well configured DNS - c.castellari 5 years ago
