I just installed red hat enterprise version 4 and everything went great but I cannot ping it's hostname for some weird reason. When I give it a static IP I can ping that just fine. I looked through the DNS info on it and don't see anything wrong. Am I missing something??
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fresh red hat enterprise install.... cannot ping hostname
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sleipnir214
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From where are you pinging your new server? From the server itself or from another machine?
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sleipnir214
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Have you registered the name and IP address of your new Linux box in your DNS server?
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ok, one last question. after i add it on my DNS server i can ping computer_name.domain_name.com but if i just ping the computer name alone without the domain name attached it cannot reach it from my xp machine. why is that? i double checked the record i added and it looks correct.
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