Not able to ping the system using its hostname

[karthick87]

I am using Fedora 16, i am not able to ping any of the systems in my network using its hostname. I guess it might be DNS issue. But i dont find any solution to fix it. Can anyone help me pls ?

[lightman47]

edit /etc/hosts (as su) and add their addresses & names - that assumes they are static.

[Antrikssh]

Hi,

Just edit in your system hosts file in which you write down the ip address and give some name to that ip adress like that

[root]# vi etc/hosts

################### In hosts file #########

127.0.0.1 localhost(name that you like to give )

10.0.0.1 mysystem
################################
then save that file and ping your system by using given name rather then address.