On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:

> As to the Name resolution issue, there is a difference between Windows Name
> Service (WINS) and Domain Name System/Servers (DNS).  You can do your own
> serches for the details, but here are a couple of articles you may find
> useful:
>   http://news.hitb.org/content/wins-vs-dns (OLD but simple)
>   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750589.aspx (Microsoft
> article on integrating them)
>
> A simpler answer for you might be to turn on DNSMASQ in your router if
> yours supports that.  It basically caches DNS resolutions for requests going
> out through the router as well as  the names of systems on your LAN getting
> IPs from the router.
>

Yeah, that does explain why I can't access local machines by name. Good to
know.

Still, would really like to resolve the latency in access internet
resources. (Ping seems to be fast enough though)