>> /etc/hosts on my dnsmasq server looked > > something like this: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost Shuttle > > 192.168.1.4 Shuttle shuttle > > > dnsmasq reads your hosts file and gives it to other machines on the > network... verbatim. It was acting as it was supposed to. Your fix was > the proper solution, just as the original behavior is what is to be > expected. > I thought that the hosts file was as created by the installer originally (ubuntu 9.04 I think), but it's entirely possible I messed it up somewhere along the line :)
Thanks Steve