[Buildroot] ping not working in a glibc based buildroot

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Eial,

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 04:28:53PM +0300, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've built a root using buildroot-2014.05 with busybox and glibc.
> after that I've mounted the image and chroot into it. I've tried to ping
> my desktop and I get this:
> # ping eial
> ping: bad address 'eial'
> 
> but when I'm trying the same from the host computer (where the image is
> mounted) I get this:
> [root at cluster1 ~]# ping eial
> PING eial (10.100.0.120) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from eial (10.100.0.120): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.227 ms
> 64 bytes from eial (10.100.0.120): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.198 ms
> 
> any ideas what can be the issue and how to solve it?

This is most likely a name server configuration issue. Can you compare the 
content of your host /etc/resolv.conf to that of your chroot?

baruch

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