can't connect to clients using hostnames

[Zig Rave]

i'm using short names like Home-Server which is set in /etc/hosts to the
corresponding IP address

-Ryan

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:08 AM, sich <sich at cafe-philo.net> wrote:

> 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...
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