ping not resolving names

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 26 July 2007, Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> I found it where it should be (silly me).
>
> But I forgot to mention I had to use fixed DNSs because I am using fixed IP
> in my home LAN. Both in my laptop (which has the problem) and my desktop
> (which doesn't - see reply to noop).

I too use fixed home LAN addresses.     I have about 10 addresses locally and 
I put those into  /etc/hosts    for lookup.