Hi , I have configured OEL 5.3 server on VMware server,installation went fine, however when i am checking host using configured /etc/hosts i am getting following error let me know where it went wrong .
I had disabled firewall options and SELLinux.
root@oen11g ~]# host oen11g.grid.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
here is /etc/hosts
[root@oen11g ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
10.103.10.125 ; oen11g.grid.com oen11g
I am able to ping
[root@oen11g ~]# ping 10.103.10.125
PING 10.103.10.125 (10.103.10.125) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.103.10.125: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.53 ms
64 bytes from 10.103.10.125: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.339 ms
--- 10.103.10.125 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.339/0.936/1.533/0.597 ms
[root@oen11g ~]# ping oen11g.grid.com
PING oen11g.grid.com (10.103.10.125) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from oen11g.grid.com (10.103.10.125): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.036 ms
64 bytes from oen11g.grid.com (10.103.10.125): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.242 ms
64 bytes from oen11g.grid.com (10.103.10.125): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.234 ms
--- oen11g.grid.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.036/0.170/0.242/0.096 ms
[[root@oen11g ~]# traceroute 10.103.10.125
traceroute to 10.103.10.125 (10.103.10.125), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 oen11g.grid.com (10.103.10.125) 0.572 ms 0.026 ms 0.021 ms
[root@oen11g ~]# dig +trace 10.103.10.125
; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 <<>> +trace 10.103.10.125
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[root@oen11g ~]#
should be there in /etc/hosts