SUMMARY: Why can't I PING some computers......

Many thanks to :

William Geldhof <william.geldhof@nss.be>, Michael Schulte
<mike@babbage.cs.umsl.edu>, Ric Anderson <ric@Opus1.COM>, David Foster
<foster@dim.ucsd.edu>, Alan Angulo <alan@esu.edu>, Mike Salehi <
mike.salehi@kodak.com >, Vandevegt, James Matthew (Jim)
<vandevegt@avaya.com>, Deb <deb@tickleme.llnl.gov>

for your kind responses. You all pointed to same files i.e. .login,
/etc/profile, cshrc etc.  But in my case, even after making the changes in
these files individualy, the problem was still there. However, in the end I
found a script on my system that copies customized .tcshrc files to each
users' home folder. Once I found the customized files location and made
changes there, it worked fine.

Best regards

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yar Baily" <msmabc@hotmail.com>
To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:04 PM
Subject: Why can't I PING some computers......


> I have Solaris 8 and SSH running on one sparc server. I used to run a SSH
> client from one W2K machine to access the server and it worked fine all
the
> times. But for some reason now it does not work. Whenever I try to
connect,
> on the server I see a message regarding gethostsbyaddress failed error
> message. I tried to PING the workstation with its fully qualified domain
> name and it tells me that host is unknown. While if I try to ping the IP
> address, it pings it. I thought may be the reverse lookup is not working
but
> when I did NSlookup, it can resolve it by machine name as well as the IP
> address. so I think the DNS part is working.  There are some machine that
I
> can ping by name and by IP address without any problem from the same
server.
>
> So, as you can imagine ........... I am lost !!!!!!
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