RE: RE: snmpget returns Unknown host

"Mike Ayers" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <83E753BE7B6A324ABB336245BAF1DAAC070F1B57@mailserver.metatv-ds.metatv.com>
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Reza Salehi

> When I use 127.0.0.1 it works fine but I can also so do  < 
> ping localhost > and that works fine too.

	I doubt that means anything, since I would expect ping to have the value of "localhost" compiled in.

> It seems snmpget 
> doesn't like the localhost name.

	Just look at your /etc/hosts file.  If it doesn't define "localhost", you can't use it.  Many current distros don't, for reasons I cannot fathom.


	HTH,

Mike

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