Hi All: Yesterday I set up a beta version of Red Hat 7.3. The box sits behind my Netgear cable/dsl router. The set up went well and I successfully configured the NIC and was able to establish connectivity. Two years ago when I was running Linux [yes, I left the Promised Land to return to the onions and leeks of Egypt] I had the Ximian Desktop. I decided to install Ximian again; after the reboot though I got the unknown host error. I've poured over several sites and archives and can't figure out what is wrong. This is what I have: /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 68.2.16.30 nameserver 68.1.208.30 search 68.2.16.30 68.1.208.30 domain ph.cox.net /etc/hosts 192.168.0.4 redbox 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind eth0 192.168.0.4 255.255.255.0 Gateway 68.2.35.219 I can ping the Red Hat NIC and the XP box 192.168.0.1. In all the examples I've seen this appears to be correct, but obviously something is amiss; suggestions as what to do next? Thanks, Mike