It sounds like you should read the networking HOWTO. The part about name resolution is at http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/x413.html Basically when you give a machine a name it needs to resolve that to an IP address. It has a couple of places where it can find that information. The first is in its /etc/hosts file. If the machine you are trying to ping is in your computer's /etc/hosts file it will resolve the name. Note that the /etc/hosts file has to be on the computer you are pinging /from/. If the computer name is not in the hosts file, the computer will check its DNS servers. You probably have DNS set to your ISP's DNS servers. You ISP does not have DNS information for the computers at your house, so your computer will not be able to resolve the name from DNS. If you have a small network then keeping hosts files up to date isn't such a large task. The larger your network gets, however, the easier it is to have a DNS server. One outlet for DNS service that I recommend is EveryDNS, at www.everydns.net. You set up DNS for your network there for free. Read that networking howto though. It's good to get a firm understanding on how all of it works. Good luck! Erik On 29 Apr 2002, Sreekumar Kodakara wrote: > Hi > I want to set the name of a linux system. I edited the etc/hosts file to > include the name. The change gets reflected but I am not able to ping the > machine using the new name of the machine. It says hosts not found. > Is there anything else which I must do? > Thanks for the help. > Sree > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Bob Gilbertson wrote: > > > Jon, > > > > Don't know that Linux has been pushed down into FPGA's (yet), not enough > > horsepower in them I think. > > > > Here is at least a partial listing of uC: > > http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4313418436.html > > > > One mfgr. I think is interesting is NEC: > > http://www.linuxdevices.com/products/PD6574796610.html > > http://www.necel.com/microprocessors/powerEfficient.cfm > > > > 1545 MIPS/watt, however its definitely not an FPGA :) > > > > There may be other uC whose instruction set is only partially supported at > > this point. > > > > Bob > > > > Jon Schewe wrote: > > > > > > Someone at work asked me this question today and I couldn't find a master > > > list. What he'd like to find is a master list of all processors that > Linux > > > has been ported to so he can match this list up with a list of available > > > processors for a project. In particular he's looking at FPGAs. > > > > > > I tried the Hardware HOWTO, and it gave a list, but stated it wasn't > > > complete. Same thing out on kernel.org. Has someone built such a list? > > > > > > -- > > > Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > > > For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels > > > nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any > > > powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all > > > creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that > > > is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >