SUMMARY: Ping does not recognize fully qualified host name

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Thanks to Edsel Adap ( adap@andrews.edu ) for the quick reply/solution.

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System:
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Sparc 10/41
SunOs 4.1.3.

I am trying to set up an alias for our main machine that would allow folks
to ftp to ftp.cch.com.

I have added an entry to the DNS named.hosts file thusly.

        ftp IN CNAME cchtor.cch.com.
        cchtor IN A 192.139.241.2
                IN MX 10 cchtor.cch.com.
                IN MX 15 mail.uunet.ca.
                IN MX 20 relay1.uu.net.
                IN MX 20 relay2.uu.net.

The NIS hosts map has been updated to reflect the alias as such:

        192.139.241.2 cchtor loghost mailhost dumphost timehost ftp

I can ping ftp but I cannot ping ftp.cch.com. I can ping other hosts in
the domain, eg: goofy.cch.com so things are set up and are working for
the domain.

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============================== Solution ======================================

change:
         ftp IN CNAME cchtor.cch.com.

To:

        ftp IN CNAME cchtor

This works !!.

Thanks Adap.

Thu Sep 23 06:20:09 EDT 1993
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Larry Chin {larry@cchtor.cch.com} CCH Canadian Ltd.
System Administrator 6 Garamond Court
Research and Development North York, Ontario.
(416) 441-4001 ext. 349 M3C 1Z5

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