hostname and dhcp question

[Ankush Grover]

On 6/30/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have fedora core 5 installed in one of my computer in LAN. One of the
> windows machine acts as the web server (internal) for the LAN but I can't
> figure out how to get the web page served by that machine in my fedora. Just
> typing the hostname ( http://hostname) doesn't work, I have to put the IP
> address to see the page. What's wrong with DHCP setting? and how to fix
> this?
>
> By the way all computers in my LAN have dynamic address which is handled by
> DSL modem router. Other windows machine is behaving correctly, only fedora
> installation is not. What do I need to do? I also checked the network
> settings and found nothing to do with that as it has all automatic option
> checked.
>
> Thanks!

hey,

Is there any  Internal DNS Server on your Lan and does your fedora
machine has the entry of that Internal DNS Server ? You can check the
dns entries in /etc/resolv.conf


Regards

Ankush Grover