On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 13:22, Divine Tanyingoh <dtanying at lakeheadu.ca> wrote: > Issue: After installing vms on vmware, I noticed a difference in behavior > between centos 6 vs 7. On centos 6 I cannot ping the hostname and get a > reply without first resolving in the /etc/hosts file by adding a new entry: > 192.168.0.47 server1.example.com. > > But for centos 7 I am able to ping the hostname and get a reply even when I > have not made any changes to the /etc/hosts file. Why is there this > difference between centos 6 vs 7. > > That sounds more like a questions for VMware forums than here.. something in vmware is populating some sort of 'DNS' for you to do this. I don't know of any change in EL6 and EL7 that would do this by itselfd. > Thank you for your assistance. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen.