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

From: Yar Baily (msmabc@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 16:04:12 EDT


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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