I have no problem. I am using XP/Pro in a computer with 2 ethernet cards, one hoooked to an ADSL router and the other one to a home lan, using Internet Connection Sharing. My Linux machine connect to the home lan, DHCP is served by the ¨minimalist DHCP server on XP. The Linux machine DNS server points to the XP home-lan-card, which is at the same time its default gateway.
During Mandrake 9 installation, I set the name of the machine as pc-mdk-9.mshome.net because the NDS proxy built into XP serves that domain. Take a look at your DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf and make sure that all your machines belong to the same domain. Adolfo > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Matthew > O. Persico > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 6:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] dhcp incomplete on mandrake?? > > > I am using DHCP on my home network. The DHCP server is my > Linksys wireless router. I have XPPro (ethernet), XPHome > (wireless ethernet) and Mandrake 9.0 (ethernet) on the boxes. > > DHCP assigns addresses to all boxes. > I can ping all boxes by ip addresses from all boxes. > I can ping all boxes by name from the XP boxes. > When I ping by name on Mandrake, I get "unknown host". > I do not have any DNS servers running or any hosts files configured. > > Why does the Gates-ware figure out the names, but Linux does > not? What other information can I provide to be helpful? > -- > Matthew > > > >
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