Re: Newbie Basic Networking. Using Hostnames

2008-05-08 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:04:45AM +, Oscar Corte wrote: >I'm able to ping each machine from each other but by its IP address. > However, I don't get any results if I ping by the use of host names. > What am I missing? a definition of the two "ip fqdn name" lines in /etc/hosts on both machi

Re: Newbie Basic Networking. Using Hostnames

2008-05-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:04:45AM +, Oscar Corte wrote: > > I recently installed Debian at two home PC?s. Both are connected to an > ADSL modem through which Internet is accessed. > > All network configurations were made by Debian at installation time. > I?m able to ping each machine from e