Mitch writes: > Looking in /etc/nsswitch.conf > I have a line > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 > I presume this is the order used to find hosts... and does it look > correct? Change it to: hosts: files dns Also get rid of avahi-daemon if you have it. That mdns stuff was put there by zeroconf, avahi-daemon, or network-manager. -- John Hasler