In the Setup for the Linksys Router, be sure that the Domain Name field contains
your @Home Domain name and not just "@home". This is passed on to the search line 
in /etc/resolv.conf on my box (Mandrake8.1 with kernel updated to 2.5.0).

This allows ping mail and ping news.

W. E. Brooks

>Take a look at this file /etc/resolv.conf. It should have several lines
>that start with nameserver and one line that starts with search. 
>
>On my box, the search line is as follows:
>   search @home
>
>This should be my @home search domain which is:
>   chnd1.az.home.com
>If I change the search line to:
>   search chnd1.az.home.com
>then I can ping mail and news.
>
>However, /etc/resolv.conf gets rebuilt on each reboot.
>When I boot the search line gets changed back to 
>   search @home
>Don't know if this is a bug or a feature.
>
>
>W.E. Brooks    

On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 21:50, John Albee wrote:
> I have a small question that is bugging me.  Whenever I setup a system
> (linux or win) and connect it directly to @home using their DHCP servers,
> entries in mail and news programs such as "mail" and "news" work flawlessly.
> When I connect a network using a linux or linksys firewall that grabs
> IP/gateway/DNS information from @home's DHCP servers and passes the exact
> same DNS server IPs, the @home "news" and "mail" aliases will not work.
> What is causing this?
> 
> John Albee
> guesswho911@home.com
> 
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