tinc - May 2008 - can't connect to clients using hostnames

i'm running several windows machines and one gentoo linux machine with tinc
and all the windows computers connect and work fine, and they all can
connect to the linux computer fine but the linux computers can't connect to
the hosts if i use a hostname in the Address field.  the hostnames work
everywhere else in the system, and if i use the IP addresses in the hosts
files it works, just not using a hostname of domain name.  Ideas anyone?

-Ryan
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Zig Rave a ?crit :
> i'm running several windows machines and one gentoo linux machine with 
> tinc and all the windows computers connect and work fine, and they all 
> can connect to the linux computer fine but the linux computers can't 
> connect to the hosts if i use a hostname in the Address field.  the 
> hostnames work everywhere else in the system, and if i use the IP 
> addresses in the hosts files it works, just not using a hostname of 
> domain name.  Ideas anyone?
>
> -Ryan
What do you call the hostname ? Full hostname like www.tinc-vpn.org or 
juste tinc-vpn ?
If you use full hostname then you need to check your dns configuration 
(check wich nameserver is used), and if it's only the hostname (like 
tinc-vpn) you need to put the information in the /etc/hosts files...