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On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:53:15PM -0400, The Old Bear wrote:
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> I seem to recall a similar problem which also had me unable to ping
> other machines on my non-routed local network.
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> It was solved once these machines (and localhost) were identified in
> /etc/hosts.
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> Even though I was attempting to "ping" using only numeric IP
> addresses, the particular implementation appears to have been
> attempting to resolve the numeric IP against a name.  The external
> nameserver had no idea about our internal 172.16.xxx.xxx addresses or
> of 127.0.0.1 loopback, and ping would just seem to hang and return
> nothing.

you have to use 'ping -n':

  -n   Numeric output only. No attempt will be made to look up symbolic
       names for host addresses.

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regards,

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