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hi,

Can anyone explain the theory of what the OS doing when I try to ping a
hostname ?

I recently meet a problem, when I ping a hostname ,the ping program just
tell me that: Ping request could not find host <hostname>. Please check
the name and try again. Just likes that I enter a invalid hostname, but
I'm sure it's a valid hostname which ever exists in the hosts file.

Where is the problem ? thank you for your ideas.

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Again zhang
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