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elopio
Asked: 2016-12-09 19:09:28 +0800 CST

From a virtual machine, how can't I access the host by name?

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I have a KVM/QEMU virtual machine created in Virtual Machine Manager.

From this machine I can ping the host by IP, but I can't ping it by hostname:

elopio@ubuntu-xenial:~$ ping 192.168.2.207
PING 192.168.2.207 (192.168.2.207) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.207: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.142 ms

elopio@ubuntu-xenial:~$ host calchas
calchas has address 127.0.1.1

So, if I try to access calchas (the host, ip=192.168.2.207) by name from ubuntu-xenial (the guest), I will be accessing the guest instead.

How can I ping the host by name?

networking

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The solution was to append .lan to the hostname:

    $ ping calchas.lan
PING calchas.lan (192.168.2.207) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from calchas.lan (192.168.2.207): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.151 ms
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