hosts file won't fix dupe IP addresses being assigned. I would just try
running "arp -a" in the DOS shell on each of the machines (after
pinging) and make sure the MAC addresses all match up! Let me know if I
am not being clear.

-steve

Lester Caine wrote:

>
> Steve Wiser wrote:
> > duplicate IP addresses? You can ping so that would seem to indicate
> > that it is not an ARP problem...
> Just copied the hosts file to another machine, and that works fine.
>
> > -steve
> >
> > Lester Caine wrote:
> >> Michael Weissenbacher wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>> ANY ideas what I should try next.
> >>> Are you using classic? Maybe it's just the default xinetd
> restrictions.
> >> xinetd on XP?
> >> But the problem seems to be narrowing down to the laptop. I'm about to
> >> try a different laptop and see what happens.
>
> It's definitely something wrong the laptop and one of the backup
> servers. Both
> refuse to connect to databases on other machines and can't be
> connected to,
> but they work fine locally, and are fine serving web pages. They WERE
> working
> at one point, but it's been a while since I had PHP working as an
> interface,
> so I don't know when the direct stuff went faulty. I've got things
> working by
> borrowing Sheila's laptop, so I'm OK for tomorrow :)
>
> I suppose now I need to wipe the machines and reinstall them :( Unless
> anybody
> has an idea what I need to kick to fix things.
>
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