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RE: [ECS] OFF TOPIC Q Martin Terry Fri, 4 Feb 2000 20:18:01 -0800

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You definately don't want anything in the DNS field, in fact you can only
put numbers there, and you only want the address of a DNS server there.

The hosts file lookup is separate from DNS.


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Keast [mailto:libertyc@prodigy.net]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 6:35 PM
To: ECS
Subject: [ECS] OFF TOPIC Q


Hi All,

Sorry for the off topic question but this is driving me bonkers!

I cannot get name resolution between the pc's on my LAN.  When I ping the IP
it works. When I ping the name the computer tries to dial the internet.
HELP PLEASE!

I have tried the following:

I have edited c:\windows\hosts (This file has no extension like it is
supposed to)  I can ping the "name" of the machine I am on as "localhost" or
"computer name" but when I try to ping a remote pc the pc wants to call the
internet.

My TCP/IP configuration has DNS enabled with the host name.  I have tried it
both ways actually.

I am running windows 98 on both machines and experience the problem on both.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Again sorry for the off topic question.

Kevin

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