Re: [IPCop-user] Can't ping IPCop

[Arnt K. <ar...@c2...>]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:51:46 -0600, 
"HOMER_Simpson" <H_O...@ho...> wrote in message 
<OE6...@ho...>:

> Mike Morrett wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:29:03 +0000, "stinga" <st...@wo...>
> > said:
> >
> > ---snip---
> >
> >> What happens if you ping ipcop.mydomain.com?
> 
> > C:\TEMP>ping ipcop.mydomain.org
> > Unknown host ipcop.mydomain.org.

..a 'whois mydomain.org', online, might be helpful here.  ;-)

> And dnsmasq *has* been restarted to appply the changes that are in the
> /etc/hosts file right?
> 
> Oh Oh Oh
> Random thing that just might account for it:
> Is the file hosts all in lowercase?  I'm not 100% sure but I believe
> the only file that dnsmasq will read is /etc/hosts - if it's named
> HOSTS the read will *not* happen.  This happened to me when I used
> WinSCP to shoot the file over from my Wintel box, and never bothered
> to check the case of the filename itself.
> 

..wintendo's can do 'ping -n'? (no-dns pings)

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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