Collins Richey wrote:
> I have experienced the same result on 7.1 and 7.2 (just installed today).
>
> My home pc network consists of a WinME PC connected to the att@home (cable)
> network and a secondary PC that is dual boot Win98/linux. Everything works
> well on either linux or Win98 - dns location of urls, netscape, mail, etc.,
> except.
>
> att@home uses a single host for the POP3 incoming mail and the SMTP outgoing
> mail, and this host is named 'mail'.
>
> When I ping mail on either windows, I get the appropriate ip address for
> 'mail'. Running on linux I get 'host not found', and thus I have to hard
> code the ip address in Kmail, etc.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Thanks,
> Collins Richey
> Denver area
What do you have in your /etc/resolv.conf file?
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