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I have put the address of my network's DNS in /etc/resolv.conf. However, I still can't use computer names when pinging them. Can anybody tell me what the problem is?
If you type "nslookup name", where 'name' is a computername on your network, what does it return? It should display the DNS servers it's querying along with any errors associated with. Are they correct?
Can you paste your '/etc/resolv.conf' file for us to see? Your problem is probably because you didn't put 'search <your domain>' in the resolv.conf file.
If you just have something like 'nameserver 192.168.1.5', it's not going to resolve hostnames but it will resolve the FQDN 'homer.woohoo.com'. Now if you put something like:
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