In news:2277C023-CC42-45A6-92E6-B2D04B8A79C0@microsoft.com,
BlenderStyle <BlenderStyle@discussions.microsoft.com> stated, which I
commented on below:
> Okay, after lots of research I fixed my own problem. The problem was
> due to the fact that I'm using the .local suffix in my Windows
> domain. Aparently SUSE Linux doesn't like this or rather libresolv
> doesn't like this. Programs like ping use libresolv but other
> programs like nslookup don't. Here's what I did at my linux machine:
>
> cd /lib
> cp libresolv.so.2 libresolv.so.2-orig
> rm libresolv.so.2
> cp libresolv.so.2-orig libresolv.so.2
> perl -pi -e 's/local/lozal/g' libresolv.so.2
> shutdown -r 0
>
> I have no idea what that does or why it works but it did. I can now
> ping all the machines in my local network by hostname.
>
> "BlenderStyle" wrote:
I don't play much with Linux, but I can comment on one of my customers using
numerous Mac OSx systems in their environment, which is BSD based and has
the same problem as Linux in this respect because Mac, for it's Rendezvous
name, uses .local. We overcame that by jumping thru a few hoops early on.
Glad you figured it out.
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