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Hi PetBuilder!

On 23 Sep 01 at 10:02 you wrote:

> Upon checking I can ping IP numbers but I cannot resolve Host Names?

Perhaps you don't have any nameservers specified in 
/etc/resolv.conf. In there should be at least one line that reads:
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

HTH
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