On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:46:34AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Did you not say you had stopped NM from running. Yes I did and NM is not running. > Go to another machine and run dig on the contested ip address and find out > what its name of the machine. You can also find out its machine address. # dig 192.168.1.6 ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> 192.168.1.6 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 21219 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;192.168.1.6. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: . 10240 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2007121100 1800 900 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 34 msec ;; SERVER: 158.152.1.58#53(158.152.1.58) ;; WHEN: Tue Dec 11 16:05:44 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104 I am not sure what that has told me. Jonathan