What do you have in your /etc/network/interfaces file? Do you request a
hostname from the router?
See "man interfaces" for some ideas.
scott
Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> It's the local network, and the "server" is actually a router
> appliance. I haven't been able to find any provision for granting
> dedicated IP addresses to some machines without disabling dynamic
> addressing for others, and I do need dynamic addressing because
> computers are being added to and subtracted from the network all the
> time. Besides, it seems like it should work, since all the Windows
> machines are getting name resolution just fine, and both "host foo"
> and "nmblookup foo" commands are finding IP addresses just fine --
> it's only "ping foo" that isn't working, as far as quick command-line
> diagnostics are concerned.
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