cannot resolve hostname :(

Hello everyone...

I just finish a FreeBSD 9 release installation and I have a problem in pinging my server hostname.

I can ping the default gateway and google as well as the server IP but not the hostname..
could you help please?

Fred

/etc/rc.conf

Code:
hostname="webbsd.corp.u4agr.com"
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
defaultrouter="10.8.20.1"
sshd_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
dumpdev="AUTO"
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Wed Aug  8 11:40:50 2012
keymap="uk.iso"

/etc/hosts

Code:
::1                     localhost localhost.my.domain
127.0.0.1               localhost localhost.my.domain

[cmd=]netstat -rn[/Cmd]

Code:
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
default            10.8.20.1          UGS         0       26    em0
10.8.20.0/24       link#1             U           0      202    em0
10.8.20.112        link#1             UHS         0        0    lo0
127.0.0.1          link#3             UH          0        0    lo0

Internet6:
Destination                       Gateway                       Flags      Netif Expire
::/96                             ::1                           UGRS        lo0
::1                               ::1                           UH          lo0
::ffff:0.0.0.0/96                 ::1                           UGRS        lo0
fe80::/10                         ::1                           UGRS        lo0
fe80::%lo0/64                     link#3                        U           lo0
fe80::1%lo0                       link#3                        UHS         lo0
ff01::%lo0/32                     ::1                           U           lo0
ff02::/16                         ::1                           UGRS        lo0
ff02::%lo0/32                     ::1                           U           lo0

[Cmd=]ping yahoo[/Cmd]

Code:
webbsd# ping yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (209.191.122.70): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.191.122.70: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=208.349 ms
64 bytes from 209.191.122.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=210.072 ms
^C
--- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 208.349/209.210/210.072/0.861 ms

[cmd=]ping own ip[/Cmd]

Code:
webbsd# ping 10.8.20.112
PING 10.8.20.112 (10.8.20.112): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.8.20.112: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.093 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.20.112: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.554 ms
64 bytes from 10.8.20.112: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.518 ms
^C
--- 10.8.20.112 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.093/0.722/1.518/0.594 ms

[cmd=]ping hostname[/cmd]

Code:
webbsd# ping webbsd
ping: cannot resolve webbsd: Host name lookup failure
 
Thank you Johnd:)

I can now ping the webbsd server from himself with no problem but i cannot ping webbsd from a windows box.
Any idea why?

Code:
Ping request could not find host webbsd
 
Don't use the hosts file for this. The machine gets it's IP address from DHCP, which can change.

Configure your router, most SOHO modem/routers have functionality in them to resolve locally registered hostnames. If that's not possible set up your own DHCP and ADNS server.
 
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