Ubuntu Networking :: Access PC Using Hostname Instead Of IP Address?
Apr 13, 2010
Right now my setup is as follows: I have an Asus Eeepc 900 running Netbook Remix named eeepc, and a media centre running 64-bit Ubuntu named media.When I try to ping or ssh into one machine from the other, for exampleCode:$ ping mediaI get an "unknown host name" error. However, pinging the device's IP address works. How do I get the computers to recognize each other's host names? Did I miss something in the setup?
ok so when i sudo apt-get update i get a bunch of crap that says no address associated with hostname
ive googled this and changed my /etc/hosts to all sorts of things and no luck apache wont even work now either. this server is for a few websites the company i work for hosts. currently i swaped it over to another windows based comp but we want it on ubuntu.
ive heard this is dns related? and that a FQDN is needed? if so im not sure how to re write my /hosts file but as of not it looks like this:
Code: 127.0.0.1localhost 63.119.120.135speed # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
New CentOS 5.4 system working fine. Sys admins came in and copied the hosts file from one of the servers down to my desktop and ever sincethen machine has been slow (progs take 10-20seconds to load). RunningGnome. Luckily I saved the old hosts file and copied it back and all is now well. But I'd like to understand why, particularly as I will need to change myhostname in the future.
As configured: /etc/hosts (yes my hostname is "dummyName" that I will need to change later) 127.0.0.1 dummyName localhost.localdomain localhost
I can reach other hosts by means of their global addresses by either the IP address or hostname (that has the global address). What I want to (also) do is have a hostname that references the IPv6 link local IP address (an AAAA record in DNS, or just the fe80::<whatever> address in /etc/hosts) and use that host name in commands to access that host. The problem is, an interface ID is needed when making such a reference.
It sure looks like the programs just pass the host name string on to the resolver library, which does not understand the significance of the '%' even though it could find and see that the name preceding the '%' is consistent with that being an IPv6 link local address (e.g. the logic could have been "split at first % and see if preceeding name is found as a link local address and accept that if so, or ignore the split otherwise" ... but it isn't). Is there a different syntax for this ... or was it overlooked in the design of programming around IPv6?I want to be able to address a host by its link local address, while still using a mnemonic instead of having to type the IPv6 address.
I have Squid3 running and SARG for producing report. I would like to see the hostname being logged in the access.log file instead of the client IP address. I have already set the option log_fqdn=on and it doesn't do it. I still see the client IPs in access.log files...
I've completed the installation of a CentOS server.Running the setup utility as root, ive set up a static IP and installed apache. Now this works ok. I can type in the servers IP address from my browser/putty/winSCP and access the server within the intranet. The problem is that i would also like to access the server using its hostname, e.g. http://centos or whatever Currently i cannot do it. I've searched the forums, edited the /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/hosts to no avail no matter what i do i cannot access it. i've disabled some services so im not sure if this is the fault.
This morning it would not boot; when I tried to wake up the system, it gave me a bunch of errors, the last ones being as follows: "mount error: could not resolve address for servername: No address associated with hostname mountall: mount /media/shares [1402] terminated with status 1" I am writing this in Win 7 since I lost ubuntu. I am using ubuntu 11.04.
At school can connect to my computer via SMB/Samba and VNC from the Windows Machines, but not by hostname (I still cannot VNC in at home on my desktop computer and have yet to try Samba there because I wanna setup Samba there from the comfort of my laptop and therefore need VNC first). How come I cannot access this machine by it's hostname?
I am using samba version 3 (probably), and the problem is that the linux based nas can only be accessed via its ip 192.168.x.x but not its hostname /server string appointed by the smb.conf file:
Code: [global] netbios name = NAS server string = NAS smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
I have a network of 2 WinXP machines and one linux box. I have fiddled around with the settings as you do when learning. The network is working. The network neighbourhood on the WinXP machines recognise the linux box and vice versa, (the linux Places|Network recognises the 2 WinXP). I can Ping the linux box using its hostname from a WinXp. But I cannot do the reverse. I get an 'unknown host' response. I can ping the linux to itself using its hostname.
I'm trying to ping another Ubuntu computer on my local network. If I try doing,ping <hostname>then I get the messageping: unknown host <hostname>however, if I doping <hostname>.localthen I get a response back. I was wondering how I can change it so that I can ping without having to append .localI've installed winbind and modified my /etc/nsswitch.conf file but this has made no difference.
I have an ubuntu 10.04 server with hostname "abc.domain.com". However, due to migration, we had to change to hostname to something else, "xyz".
I have done changing /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname and run /etc/init.d/hostname start.
Checking the hostname and all shows it is now using hostsname of xyz. However, email sending out is still using old hostname. We have some scripts that will send out alerts like failed rsync or hdd space full to my email account. But I see the sender is still "root@abc.domain.com".
How do change that to xyz? I am using postfix. I have edited main.cf and restarted postfix but no go.
I am having a problem logging into my remote gentoo (2.6.23) linux machine using my hostname from my Windows XP machine using cygwin. I can login using my ip address, but not the hostname.
This works: $ ssh me@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx
This does NOT work: $ ssh me@my_hostname ssh: connect to host my_hostname port 22: Connection refused
I have verified that my hostname is indeed "my_hostname" on my linux machine by using the "hostname" command.
I'm having an issue on two Fedora Core 13 machines where I can ping others by hostname, but the hostname resolution fails whenever I use ssh/scp/vnc/etc. I can still do these things by IP address, just not by hostname. RHEL5.3 machines on the same network with the same configuration do not seem to have this problem.
Here's the not-so-quick-and-dirty description of the situation:
I know that there is a virtual router at 192.168.31.1 and another at 192.168.30.1. I also know that there is another network (let's call it 90.90.90.0) and on that network lies a number of resources. By nature of this configuration, any machine on 90.90.90.0 can be accessed by any 192.168.x.x, but not the other way around. Beyond that is out of my hands and currently out of my scope of knowledge.
I have a dnsmasq server on 90.90.90.10 that operates as a secondary nameserver, another machine out of my sphere of influence is the primary nameserver (90.90.90.31).
The secondary nameserver on 90.90.90.10 holds the hostnames of our development machines. The problem is that in some cases, while I can ping by hostname all day long, services such as ssh, scp, vncviewer, etc all fail to resolve the hostname. In other cases I can do all of these things.
Every machine has an equivalent resolv.conf:
As an example, I will show the output of a handful of my development machines:
I also included columbia as a one-way test -- even though it cannot access 30.x or 31.x, they can access it:
columbia -- physical machine, Red Hat Enterprise 5.3, IP 192.168.100.200
Okay, so here are the various outputs. Remember, nibbler, discovery, and atlantis can ALL: - Ping by IP address - Ping by hostname - ssh, scp, vnc, etc by IP addess
Additionally, the SERVFAIL reply from 90.90.90.31 is expected since my dnsmasq server is on the secondary server.
Note that the only machine that can both ping and ssh/scp/etc by hostname is nibbler, which also happens to be the only one of the three running RHEL5.3 instead of FC13. Other virtual and physical machines running on the 192.168.31.0 and 192.168.30.0 networks (all running RHEL5.3) work just like nibbler does. So the problem seems to only affect machines running FC13.
Final note: selinux is disabled, iptables is disabled, ip6tables is disabled.
Other than that, discovery is a brand-spanking-new install straight off of the FC13 DVD. atlantis has been around longer, but its just a file server so I haven't done anything too crazy to it.
I have a machine running Slackware 13. Recently I had to modify network settings on it and now I cannot ssh into that box from my local LAN using machine's name. I can only ssh by using its IP address.I searched the forums, Google, but I cannot find the solution.
I have a ubuntu server 10.04 that will not boot. I saysno ip address specified and hostname not found refer to mount cifs blah blah blahmountall mount /directory/share [863] terminate with status 32I know its because I had a share mounted at boot but the server cannot mount the share for some reason. is there a way around this so I can boot the machine.I can ping the server. I just cant ssh to it. I need to get to a prompt some how so I can remove the mount from fstab.
us robotics router, trying to access 192.168.2.1, worked on windows xp, just switched to lucidi have tried using both firefox and chrome, neither will access my router
I have a strange problem. I have to clone my MAC address (and specify a different MAC address) to get internet. Without the new MAC address I get an IP address but no internet. This happened with my old (updated from 7.04 -> 10.10) OS installation and with a new, clean install of 11.04. So I have a workaround. But I don't know what the problem is.
Ps. I recently switch modem and router. And I had the problem with old and new modem/router combinations.
I have a linux server running slackware 13.37. I am trying to mount a samba share with my other slackware machine, but I get a "mount error(13): Permission denied" when I run
sudo mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt But, if I run sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.100/share /mnt
I have my firewall setup so that only specific subnets/IP addresses can access the system. My issue is that I have remote user/laptop who needs to access the system, but is constantly on a different subnet/dhcp IP address. Is there configuration for iptables where I can enter the mac address of the laptop to allow access to the system and not specify a subnet or IP address?
I have a site in India that needs to be accessed by our offices round the world. I have added AllowUsers lines for the static IP's in those offices. However, we also have a couple of people who travel and don't have static ip's. Is it possible to enable both AllowUsers for the offices and have certificate access for the others?
we are trying to install this NIC Rosewill RC-400 Chipset RTL8169S-32 in Ubuntu 9.04 we downloaded the drivers from Rosewill website (For kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x V 3.1) but when we follow the instruction in the readme file and do make clean modules and error comes out
So I went do realteak downloaded latest available drivers that seems to be were release yesterday did same command and same error So I made only make and it went fine did then make clean modules and went fine so made make install, depmod -a and modprobe r8169 verify int was up and getting correct ip from router but I'm not able to access the internet or ping any IP address
Code: xxx@xxx-desktop:~$ uname -a Linux xxx-desktop 2.6.28-18-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:40:52 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux xxx@xxx-desktop:~$
When I try to access at physical address (0xD0000), we known that it is necessary to convert physical address to virtual address using function IOREMAP(0xD0000, 1024) and return me 0xC00D0000.
Now our doubt is when I have a board with I/O in address 0x150, is it necessary to convert this address to other virtual address??? or with inb(0x150) return me state of I/O in this address? How can I known where is this I/O address in my map memory?
host is windows 2003 server 64-bit guest is ubuntu 9.04 server 64bit Qemu : 0.11.1 Qemu manager: 7.0
from Qemu manager, if network card is using User Networking, it's a NAT and I can see that Guest Ubuntu has an ip address 10.0.2.15 and is able to access the internet. However, as Guest ubuntu is running server so I want to do use Tap networking and I assue with Tap, the Guest ubuntu will get an ip address which is in the same subnet as host machine by dhcp. so from Qemu Manager 7.0, I changed Network card to be:
NE2000PCI Vlan Number =0 VLAN Type: Tap Networking Mac address: tap0's mac address from host TAP Network Adpator: Tap0
Note that tap0 was created by openvpn. and then fired Ubuntu guest, ifconfig shows no ip address on eth0 (which has the same mac address as Tap0) so the guest Ubuntu has no ip address and can't access public.
Running Ubuntu 9.10. In the Remote Desktop config dialog I get: "Your desktop is only reachable over the local network. Others can access your computer using the address 127.0.0.1 or tabatha.local." I understand this means only the loopback ip address is available. All my other machines show their true local ip address (e.g., 192.168.1.104) in this dialog. Thus I cannot log on to this desktop from other machines.
When I try to do a remote logon from another Ubuntu 9.10 box (or from an XP box using a VNC viewer), I get: "Connection to 192.168.1.102 has been closed." What steps are needed to make this machine show its actual ip address? All file sharing between the various machines is working properly and all windows shares back and forth between XP and 'nix, and among the the vaious XP boxes and linux boxes are available as designed.
i have a xeon machine with ubuntu os machine specification is 3gb RAM 3 scsi hard drives each 73gb it have two ethernet cards one ethernet card is connected with adsl modem and the second is connected with LAN. now what is mikrotik doing for me is control access to bind mac adress with ip adress and control the band width for induvisual conection.
I got my server set up with 10.04, and with everything installed: DHCP, SSH, Samba, VBox, etc.
DHCP, SSH work fine, but I am having problems where I cannot ping the hostname of the machine.
It worked for a few minutes after I got everything installed and now it's not letting me connect via hostname. I can connect fine if I use the IP address. I cannot ping the machine by hostname unless I add it's IP address to the hosts file.
