Roger,
don't want to do that. My (possibly invalid) assumption was that name resolution is being provided by the router as the other (windows) machines are able to resolve names OK (given the successful pings by names from them) but for some reason this linux box isn't getting that? Could be I'm demonstrating a clear lack of understanding of the process here...
DHCP assigns IP addresses to network hosts. It can be configured to hook in to DNS, but I doubt that would be the case in a router. More likely is that your Windows boxes are using NetBIOS to resolve host names. -- Later David Kirk
