Re: [SLUG] DHCP/LAN problem: can ping IP cannot ping Hostname

["Chris D." <wazza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Laurie Savage wrote:
>Not sure, the resolv.conf was created automatically on the client by the 
>server so I'm guessing yes. I can see the printer laserjet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>in the CUPS config page but cannot send jobs to it. 

resolv.conf sets up what DNS servers to use, not to run DNS servers.
You will want to install bind.

>> > The hosts file on the client does not contain 
>> > 	192.168.1.1 blackbox.home
>> > because Gnome and OpenOffice complained.
>> 
>> What sort of complaint?
>> 
>Gnome could not resolve the host blackbox.home, OpenOffice hangs at the 
>splash screen for about 10 minutes (normally quite fast). I started 
>oowriter from the command line and messages from lpc, lpstat appeared 
>about no server.

You need to make sure that whatever hostname you are using is in
/etc/hosts
For example, a system called foo would be:
foo 127.0.0.1

127.0.0.1 is your lo (loopback) network device.

Cheers,
Chris