Checking the IP address configuration
Follow the procedure below to make sure that the IP address has been configured correctly.
The following procedure uses the sample IP address: 192.168.15.16.
Enter the following:
# ping 192.168.15.16
If the address has been configured correctly, the following message appears:
192.168.15.16 is alive
If the address has been configured incorrectly, the following message appears:
no answer from 192.168.15.16
When you use NIS, the IP address and host name are written to /etc/hosts on the master server. When you use DNS, the information is written to a data file on the name server. After writing the host name and IP address to the file, make sure that the configuration is correct by pinging the host.
# ping host_name
If the host name is registered with an IP address, the server can access the printer using its host name instead of its IP address.