Remember that ping often uses gethostbyname system/kernel call where traceroute often uses the actual DNS lookup. You can also easily test whether the entries are indeed in DNS by using nslookup or dig
Yes, ping (and traceroute) use gethostbyname() for resolving hostnames. And gethostbyname() goes to /etc/nsswitch.conf that must have the line
to consider first /etc/hosts then DNS.
I'm nearly finished my program i've got everything in place and than when i run it it comes back with the reply mv: command not found. This is the code that seems to be causing the problem.
elif
then
echo "There are more than one '$1' files in the system."
echo "Please... (2 Replies)
Hi.
I just installed the HP-UX 11i V2.
I have problems with CDE - it is inoperative (after logon there is a message box: messaging system failure - or something like that, it asks to check /etc/hosts and network settings).
nslookup works by hostname and IP, hostname shown the correct... (7 Replies)
hi folks,
i've got a blank hp visualize C3000 workstation and installed HP-UX 11.11. When I want to start X, I get the following error message:
# X
Fatal server error:
Couldn't open X pointer device! Is one attached?
I've connected an mouse and a keyboard with an usb/ps2 connector.... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
My current setup is:
1x Windows Server (Windows 2000 server)
1x Unix Server
2x Windows machine
3x Unix Terminals (Hostnames = A, B and C)
Problem
The problem iam having is Unix terminal C cannot be ping across by Unix terminal A or B or Unix server by using the hostname. Unix... (1 Reply)
I recently installed Solaris 10 on my Sun workstation. I cannot ping using hostname from another computer on the same network.
But I can ping using the IP address. Also I can ping other systems using their hostnames.
Can anyone give some information regarding how to resolve this issue. (4 Replies)
Hello everyone
I have a partition with a problem with ping.
If I do a ping by ip for example ping 1.1.1.1 I got no problem but If I ping by hostname for example ping partition1 take almost a minute to respond me.
I have Aix 5.3 and I have another 19 partitions with no problem. The only... (5 Replies)
anyone ever seen this problem:
I can ping the server by IP address but I can't by hostname.
nslookup is working and dns query is ok.
# nslookup mwxnsb24
Server: 10.11.49.206
Address: 10.11.49.206#53
Name: mwxnsb24
Address: 10.10.58.175
# ping... (8 Replies)
Hi.
Here is beginning of my script
#!/usr/local/bin/expect --
set timeout 15
spawn /usr/local/account.sh -n modify
expect "Password:" {send "mypassword\r"}
But due to some terminal control sequences (or something else, dunno exactly) my password prompt is looking like this:
and expect... (3 Replies)
Hello, Unix-forums!
My problem:
read -p "Enter any number, please" number
sleep 1
echo $number | tr -d 0-9
test -z $number && echo "Thank you" || echo "This is not a number"Test always displays "This is not a number". It doesn't matter if I entered a or 1.
But if I order
echo... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: intelinside
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
vmware-xferlogs
VMWARE-XFERLOGS(1) Open VM Tools VMWARE-XFERLOGS(1)NAME
vmware-xferlogs - dump vm-support output to vmx logfile
SYNOPSIS
vmware-xferlogs OPTIONS FILE
DESCRIPTION
vmware-xferlogs is a simple console application and can be run as any user. It is based on rpctool to dump the vm-support output to the vmx
log file base64 encoded. It can dump any file supplied on the commandline to the vmx log. It also does the decoding part of it. It can read
the vmware.log file decode and write the encoded files in the directory it was invoked.
Example of a transfer found in the vmx log file:
Aug 24 18:48:09: vcpu-0| Guest: >Logfile Begins : /root/install.log: ver - 1 Aug 24 18:48:09: vcpu-0| Guest: >SW5zdGFs-
bGluZyA0NDEgcGFja2FnZXMKCkluc3RhbGxpbmcgZ2xpYmMtY29tbW9uLTIuMi41LTM0 Aug 24 18:48:09: vcpu-0| Guest: >LgpJbnN0YWx-
saW5nIGh3ZGF0YS0wLjE0LTEuCkluc3RhbGxpbmcgaW5kZXhodG1sLTcuMy0zLgpJ Aug 24 18:48:09: vcpu-0| Guest: >bnN0YWxsaW5nIG1haWxjYXAtMi4xLjk-
tMi4KSW5zdGFsbGluZyBtYW4tcGFnZXMtMS40OC0yLgpJ .... .... Aug 24 18:48:10: vcpu-0| Guest: >Mi4K Aug 24 18:48:10:
vcpu-0| Guest: >Logfile Ends
OPTIONS
enc
dec
SEE ALSO vmware-checkvm(1)vmware-hgfsclient(1)vmware-toolbox(1)vmware-toolbox-cmd(1)vmware-user(1)libguestlib(3)libvmtools(3)vmware-guestd(8)vmware-hgfsmounter(8)vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8)vmblock(9)vmci(9)vmhgfs(9)vmmemctl(9)vmsock(9)vmsync(9)vmxnet(9)vmxnet3(9)HOMEPAGE
More information about vmware-xferlogs and the Open VM Tools can be found at <http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.
AUTHOR
Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <http://www.vmware.com/>.
This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>, for the Debian
project (but may be used by others).
2010.03.20-243334 2010-04-08 VMWARE-XFERLOGS(1)