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

[Christopher Friedt <>]

That may not be only source of the problem. Also check that you have a 
libresolv.* in /lib or /usr/lib.

~/Chris

Jason Stahls wrote:
> 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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