call DNS Name of Guest

[Sellam]

Hello,

have a question as newbee ..

having installed a web Application in my VMware with Linux System. edited the hosts file with appropriate DNS name. locally it s working fine http://dns-name:8080 for exp.

But from host i can t call application trough DNS-name. i use NAT connection. i can access internet evrything is Ok. But i can t call DNS Name from host. ping also withou success ..

any suggestions ..?

[stefan.becker]

This is a german forum.

Its better for you to post at VMTN => www.vmware.com

[Dayworker]

Your linux firewall is on/off? Maybe this will blocking all ping requests.
Did you enable port-forwarding in the nat.conf on your player-host?