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> I'm using RedHat 5.1 and an NE2000 NIC.  Here's the problem:
> The network card is recognized and is assigned an IRQ and all.  However,
> I am unable to ping
> other machines, and they can't ping me.  The network consists of 6 Win95
> machines which are all
> able to ping each other and the Linux server (well, not serving much
> now,
> for obvious reasons).  The connection is through a hub with twisted pair
> cables.  ifconfig lists eth0 with all the right info.
> I get the following message pop up on the console every so often:
> FATAL: ipcache_init: DNS name lookup tests failed.

> What is the problem here?

> Ben,

> It sounds like you don't quite have all the networking set up
> on the Linux box.

> Unless you are running a name server on the local net, you will
> need to set-up the "/etc/hosts" file in the Linux box. Also, check
> the /etc/resolv.conf" file for proper entries.

> > I'm using RedHat 5.1 and an NE2000 NIC.  Here's the problem:
> > The network card is recognized and is assigned an IRQ and all.  However,
> > I am unable to ping
> > other machines, and they can't ping me.  The network consists of 6 Win95
> > machines which are all
> > able to ping each other and the Linux server (well, not serving much
> > now,
> > for obvious reasons).  The connection is through a hub with twisted pair
> > cables.  ifconfig lists eth0 with all the right info.
> > I get the following message pop up on the console every so often:
> > FATAL: ipcache_init: DNS name lookup tests failed.

> > What is the problem here?

> --
> Jim Roberts

> > Ben,

> > It sounds like you don't quite have all the networking set up
> > on the Linux box.

> > Unless you are running a name server on the local net, you will
> > need to set-up the "/etc/hosts" file in the Linux box. Also, check
> > the /etc/resolv.conf" file for proper entries.

> I have an /etc/hosts file with all the machines on the network.  I'd
> like to use that as a local nameserver, but that's not really
> important.  Is there something in my setup that's telling it to look for
> a nameserver that doesn't exist?

> > order hosts, bind
> > multi-on

> Is that resolv.conf or host.conf?  That's what I have in my host.conf
> file.