Dr P Dupre wrote: > By the way, something seems wrong with my linux machine. > If I do ping homere (or homere. and the name of the network) it does > not work from the Linux, but works very well from a XP machine !!! > homere is a XP machine. > There are plenty of weird behavior like this one. > Ping Teucidide.nxxxx (my linux machine) works fine. > However, I cannot make Teucidide receive email from outside either ! > I am using a dhcp. > > I am missing something ! Could conceivably be your firewall? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland