https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/another-dns-question/m-p/4906558#M87296 Hi everyone<BR /><BR />I have a messagelabs cluster that upon a DNS lookup returns multiple addresses. However, on AIX and linux (windowz seems to handle this) if I <BR /><BR /># telnet <HOSTNAME> 25<BR /># ping <HOSTNAME><BR /><BR />I get the message "unknown host"<BR /><BR />Has anyone come across this before and now how to resolve<BR /><BR />Thanks in advance<BR /><BR />Steve</HOSTNAME></HOSTNAME> Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:43:03 GMT steven Burgess_2 2005-06-09T10:43:03Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/another-dns-question/m-p/4906558#M87296 Hi everyone<BR /><BR />I have a messagelabs cluster that upon a DNS lookup returns multiple addresses. However, on AIX and linux (windowz seems to handle this) if I <BR /><BR /># telnet <HOSTNAME> 25<BR /># ping <HOSTNAME><BR /><BR />I get the message "unknown host"<BR /><BR />Has anyone come across this before and now how to resolve<BR /><BR />Thanks in advance<BR /><BR />Steve</HOSTNAME></HOSTNAME> Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:43:03 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/another-dns-question/m-p/4906558#M87296 steven Burgess_2 2005-06-09T10:43:03Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/another-dns-question/m-p/4906559#M87297 sorted<BR /><BR />added the fqdn to /etc/hosts<BR /><BR />Ste Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:04:23 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/another-dns-question/m-p/4906559#M87297 steven Burgess_2 2005-06-09T12:04:23Z