can't connect to clients using hostnames

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Zig Rave a écrit :
> i'm running several windows machines and one gentoo linux machine with 
> tinc and all the windows computers connect and work fine, and they all 
> can connect to the linux computer fine but the linux computers can't 
> connect to the hosts if i use a hostname in the Address field.  the 
> hostnames work everywhere else in the system, and if i use the IP 
> addresses in the hosts files it works, just not using a hostname of 
> domain name.  Ideas anyone?
>
> -Ryan

What do you call the hostname ? Full hostname like www.tinc-vpn.org or 
juste tinc-vpn ?
If you use full hostname then you need to check your dns configuration 
(check wich nameserver is used), and if it's only the hostname (like 
tinc-vpn) you need to put the information in the /etc/hosts files...