[CentOS] centos 6 vs 7

Tue Mar 31 17:42:31 UTC 2020
Divine Tanyingoh <dtanying at lakeheadu.ca>

Thanks

On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 11:26, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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