>I tried a lot of flavor of LINUX since 10 years.
>Name them... I
>
>I always had the same problem with network setting.
>When ever I succeed to set my PC on a network (Modem or ADSL)
>Apache complain about "Unknown hostname" or FTPServer "IP Lookup
>failed".
>
>LYNX complaining about not able "To access start files on http://localhost" ...
>
>I can understand that kind of problem with dynamic IP
>but is there a way to solve that ?
>
>I want my network to be "Inet" capable, not local-only.
>Remember, I run Corel Linux (Debian flavor).
>Still all standard network configuration files are in /etc
>like usual.
>
>T&R

I'm a sissy, I use YaST, SuSE's config tool. Set up my dhcp, scanner, printer and zip drive out of the box.