Hostname not resolving to local IP address

Question

I am running a Windows 8 VM inside of vmware Fusion. It runs inside a Mac running OSX 10.10 (Yosemite). The VM has a computer name of \"Proud\". When I ping the VM from within i

Answer 1

You need to check on your own /etc/host file. See if you might have done any changes to this file, to indicate the machine "Proud" comes as 192.168.0.138 or x.x.x.130? Next thing to ensure (user3666197 is actually right), you need to check on ifconfig to check if you have any connection have the IP address pointing to x.x.x.130 or x.x.x.138.

Last but not least, is there any virtual appliance or instance running of "proud" which might have caused confusion as it is possible for any virtual appliance or instance to get a IP address from the same segment as well, hence having "two" machines on the network?

Hope this helps. Check on your WINS config too...