On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:14 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I have been using both IP-addresses and host names and the host names are > correctly substituted by the corresponding IP-addresses. > > Since you believe I should be able to ping them I'll leave the routing table > issue and look for inhibitors outside the linux box. Perhaps it's in the router? > I'll concentrate on that. One other thing to check is to make sure you don't have a firewall on one or more of the boxes blocking communications.