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Why the difference between network addresses reported by hostname and ping?
I have tried hostname and ping in a cluster machine, with different outputs. I am wondering what is the difference between the two? For example, on the same machine, hostname outputs node4.XXX and
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How does traceroute resolve names?
While writing a script, I wanted to reference a machine by the computer name that I gave it (e.g. "selenium-rc"). I could not ping it using "selenium-rc", so I tried the following commands to see if ...
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What is a valid hostname label?
I set up my hostname to a number, where running hostname gives:
6592
But when I run ping 6592, I get:
connect: Invalid argument
I checked the related Wikipedia page, and it does say that such a ...
