[ILUG] Name resolving problem ???

[Glen Gray]

Hi there folks,

This is my third time attempting to post this. There seems to be some 
problems with online.ie this morning.

I've at last started to look at setting up a Linux network at home. I 
managed to rebuild an old P90 with 24Mb RAM for the server role. It 
won't be doing anything special so it dosen't need more RAM. 

I went for a RH6.2 Server install on the machine and I also added DHPCD 
and X and a couple of other utilities. DCHPD and DNS/named/bind (what 
ever it's called) are setup and appear to be working correctly. I say 
appear as I am having some problems with Linux clients and not Windows. 
Both clients dual boot RH7.0 workstations/gnome install and Windows 
2000. In Windows I can telnet to the server using hostname and ip 
address. No problems. Ping responds immediately. Different story under 
linux. Telnet server disconnects me. The message in /var/log/secure is 
either that it can't verify the hostname as per /etc/hosts.allow or 
just a plain denied to IP address entry. Ping also acts strange. It 
dosen't respond for a second or two and then about 8 responses come at 
once and then it continues as per normal. Also route takes a lifetime 
to comeback with the detault route entry. But it responds instantly 
with a route -n command.

I'm a little stumped as to where to look next. Any suggestions ???

TIA
Glen