Re: [ts-7000] TS-7250 doesn't resolve host name

[Jason Stahls <>]

Check /etc/resolv.conf and make sure you have a line that says
namserver <ip address of DNS server>

Jason

xie_jian_hua wrote:
> I ran the ping command on my TS-7250 board and got the message:
>
> $ping www.bankofamerica.com
> ping: www.bankofamerica.com: Unknown host
>
> If I ping an IP address instead of host name, it will work. My TS-7250
> board is configured to use dhcp and should work fine since the output
> from ifconfig command is:
> $ ifconfig                                                           
>       
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:69:40:3D:D7              
>           
>           inet addr:10.10.1.113  Bcast:10.255.255.255 
> Mask:255.255.255.0       
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1         
>           
>           RX packets:1761 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0      
>           
>           TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0       
>           
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000                               
>           
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)                     
>           
>           Interrupt:39                                               
>           
>                                                                      
>           
> I did search the previous messages. One said a similar problem was
> caused by wrong static IP address used by the SBC. But I don't think
> it applies to my situation because I have a Linux desktop on the same
> subnet. It runs dhcp and resolves all host names. Running ifconfig
> command on the desktop PC gives me the output:
>
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:6C:C3:73:DE  
>           inet addr:10.10.1.115  Bcast:10.10.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::214:6cff:fec3:73de/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:3666226 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:903355 errors:360 dropped:0 overruns:4 carrier:720
>           collisions:5470 txqueuelen:1000 
>           RX bytes:1603262774 (1.4 GiB)  TX bytes:123856516 (118.1 MiB)
>           Interrupt:16 Base address:0xef00 
>
> If I put a host name and IP address pair in the /etc/hosts file, it
> will work for that specific host name. My linux version is 2.4.26-ts9
> Anybody can give me a pointer? Thank you.
>
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