"Bodnyk, Bruce W" wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just installed Debian 2.2 r7 on a machine. I can ping to other machines > if > I use their IP address but not by name. As far as I know I have my dns name > servers set up correctly. Any ideas of what I need to look for? Check: /etc/hosts, /etc/host.conf, /etc/hostname, /etc/networks, /etc/resolve.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf.