Re: Networking: etch doesn't find local net

jw@johannes2:~$ host student2
student2 has address 192.168.0.31

I believe 'host' goes directly to /etc/resolv.conf to see what
your DNS servers are.

jw@johannes2:~$ ping student2
ping: unknown host student2

But 'ping' goes through the 'normal' resolution process, the
first step of which is looking in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

There I suspect you don't have:

hosts: files dns

which is probably what you need.

Alexis


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