Hi, When I try to ping a host on my network by host name / FQDN I receive the "ping: unknown host"... But I can ping by IP address and I have no idea what could be causing this in ESX. BTW I can ping the same host by name from my windows box...
Cheers
no, ESX does not support Windows Internet Naming Service
Lars
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Make sure your DNS server(s) are correct on the ESX box. You are pinging from the ESX box right?
Yeah, I have checked from both the VI client and the configuration file...
From your ESX server, can you ping the DNS servers IP address?
...and if you use nslookup?
I think I have worked it out...
I can ping the DNS server by name and nslookup them. I think the problem is due to crappy old WINS name servers!!!!
There is no method of utilizing WINS in ESX is there?
I thought as much. Bloody WINS!!!
Thanks for your help
How did you solve this problem? I am able to use nslookup, but not ping to resolve a hostname.
