On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 22:07 +0200, Timur Aydin wrote:
> Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I don't have a full DNS server for my domain.  Each computer on my
> > network has a copy of the same /etc/hosts file.  Is there some way I can
> > make it use that for DNS lookups locally?
> 
> Having the exact same copy on each system does not sound
> correct. There should be a "localhost" alias in each /etc/hosts and it
> should point to the IP address of the relevant machine.
> 
> -- 
> Timur Aydin

Yeah.  Each one has an entry that says 

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

and then it has an entry consisting of 

192.168.1.?     name.espersunited.com   name

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