[LUNA] Ping Reply question

Bob Nance bob.nance at novationsys.com
Wed Aug 13 20:22:45 CDT 2014


I’m afraid I don’t know what RPi is, but I would get it’s a remote ping server. If it reporting that name, it is resolving it from somewhere!

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  Bob Nance
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On Aug 13, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Michael W. Hall <hallmw at att.net> wrote:

> So you are saying tha t the RPi is putting that in the reply status?
> That is strange, why would it do it for just my laptop?  The other
> machines have the correct name.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 02:58 +0000, Bob Nance wrote:
>> I hope I understand what you’re asking. Since the ping response doesn’t carry any identifying information beyond layer 3, the name resolution has to be occurring on the computer reporting the ping status. Is that helpful?
>> 
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>>  Bob Nance
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>>  256-534-4620
>> 
>> On Aug 11, 2014, at 9:45 PM, Michael W. Hall <hallmw at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ok.  I am setting up my RPi and have it working.  I ping my laptop from
>>> the RPi or any machine and in the reply it does not have the name of my
>>> laptop.  It has Jack where the name of my machine should be.  I have
>>> checked the hostname file and it has the name of my machine.  Anyone
>>> have an idea of where to fix that?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael
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