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David Ai wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble pinging my hostname using DHCP.  I can access the
> network and the outside world but when I try 'ping foo.bar.com' it gives
> me a the following message 'ping: cannot resolve foo.bar.com: Unknown
> host'.  I'm using v4.0 stable.  Any help would be appreciated. TIA.

	Make sure that you are requesting the nameservers in your conf file,
and that they are getting recorded in your /etc/resolv.conf file.

Good luck,

Doug
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