Hey,
I'm entirely new to ESXi and virtualisation but after going to a clients network the otherday and discovering some oddities I downloaded ESXi5 and am experiancing the same bizzare issues here.
Essentially the issue I found was that I could perform nslookup's against a short name fine but pinging or attempting to connect to a share over short name did not work.
Pinging or connecting to a share over FQDN DOES work as expected as does using an IP address.
I installed a fresh copy of ESXi5 and then brought up a VM running server 2008 here in the house.
Right from the install the machine couldn't ping itself or any other network device with a shortname but could perform nslookups.
Again pinging and connecting to shares works fine over FQDN and IP
Any help would be greatly appriciated and I apologise if this has been answered else where.
Dave
EDIT: I should add I've installed a copy of server 2008 on a standard machine in the house and shortnames are working exactly as expected.
Edit 2: I've looked into this more and my routing table shows Network 0.0.0.0 - Prefix 0 - Gateway 192.168.0.1.
This network has no switches, just simple hubs as it's just a testing home network. how can I fix this routing issue?