On Oct 3, 8:48 pm, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <1191427807.683779.81...@o80g2000hse.googlegroups. com>,
>
> "andrew.bell...@gmail.com" <andrew.bell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I've got a Linux machine where ping doesn't seem to resolve a hostname
> > if the full domainname isn't specified. Other programs do fine. For
> > instance:
>
> What's in your /etc/resolv.conf, and what does the "hosts" line of
> /etc/nsswitch.conf contain?

After I posted this I realized that this was probably the wrong group
- apologies, but thanks for the reply. Here are answers to your
questions (and more).

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
search cssm.iastate.edu iastate.edu
nameserver 129.186.142.200
nameserver 129.186.140.200
nameserver 129.186.1.200

$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | grep hosts
hosts: files dns

$ cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost

172.16.11.2 galaga-pvt.cssm.iastate.edu galaga-pvt
172.16.11.3 digdug-pvt.cssm.iastate.edu digdug-pvt
172.16.11.4 qbert-pvt.cssm.iastate.edu qbert-pvt
172.16.11.5 frogger-pvt.cssm.iastate.edu frogger-pvt
172.16.11.6 pacman-pvt.cssm.iastate.edu pacman-pvt

$ nslookup frogger
Server: 129.186.142.200
Address: 129.186.142.200#53

Name: frogger.cssm.iastate.edu
Address: 129.186.6.75

I'm trying to thing of a reason why ping would use some different
resolution mechanism than ssh. Could this be an IPv4 vs. IPv6 thing?

Thanks in advance,

-- Andrew Bell
andrew.bell.ia@gmail.com