On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 18:50 +0000, Chris Jones wrote: > I have a networking problem which is puzzling me. I am clearly missing > something. Several of my servers apps are failing because they are > unable to resolve any of the local hostnames. I have checked > /etc/hosts, /ete/resolv.conf and both are as they should be, yet I am > unable to ping any of my LAN connected PC's by name. I can ping them > by their IP addressess, but not by name. > > What else should I look for? What's in /etc/nsswitch.conf? $ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf Paul.
