I just helped my roommate set up Debian on his new computer and everything is working just fine. Installed using the Woody installer and immediately updated to the unstable packages. (He likes cutting edge. I like bleeding edge experimental. :) I've gone through this same process with 3 other computers in the apartment and every time I've gotten almost identical results. The problem here is name resolution. On all of my other boxen I can refer to the computers on the network on a "first name basis". Unfortunately, his computer always wants a FQDN for all computers. So, whereas I can do an 'ssh gandalf' to connect to my mailserver, he has to use 'ssh gandalf.theloveshack.local'. I'm sure that there's some very simple setting somewhere that governs this, but as I have no idea where it might be, finding it is somewhat difficult. :) TIA for any help. -Alex
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