Re: Problem with Net::Ping to DFS cluster

On 04/20/2012 05:34, Oeschey, Lars (I/ET-83, extern) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a little script, that first checks the availability of a DFS Cluster here. The cluster has an alias name which is used to map drives etc., so I'm using that alias to ping it for availability.
> I can ping that alias in a dosbox.
> When I use a normal servername to ping, it works with the script.
> When I use the clusteralias, it works from one machine, from another not.
...
>
> Any ideas? I know it must have to do something with that alias...

I know nothing from DFS clusters, but I would be trying to find
an IP address to ping instead of the alias.  Where does that
alias get resolved ?  If it's in the hosts file, then maybe only
that one computer has it listed there.

I would try one of Net::DNS::Resolver, gethostbyname, Net::hostent:gethost
or ?? to convert the alias to an IP addr - kinda depends on where the
alias gets resolved - who the heck knows the correlation between the
alias name and the IP addr and maybe that needs to be changed (eg:
propagated to a name server or added to each computer's hosts file).

Not an answer, but may get you pointed towards a solution.
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