Re: Re: DNS lookup failure on Linksys router

This is a SOHO network. ISP is Verizon. Two computers running WinXP, 
three running Win98. Router is 192.168.1.1 and has no name or domain. No 
domain has been asigned to this network by Verizon (dynamic IP address).
For the sake of arguing, three computers on the network have the names: 
phoenix1 (WinXP), phoenix2 (Win98), and phoenixl (Shrike).
Router serves as DNS for Windows (only one DNS entry set on the Windows 
machines).

'hosts' contains:

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost lo
192.168.1.1	router
192.168.1.105	phoenixl	#as assigned by the router's DHCP
				#(low DHCP traffic so it does not change)

Except for localhost, hosts on the Windows machines are blank.
When phoenixl is not listed, hostname [-s|-a|-i|-f|-d|-y] (any of the 
options will do it) reports "Host name lookup failure". hostname without 
any options reports "phoenixl". On startup, X-Windows (not to be 
confused with Windows XP), complains of name resolution problems.
When phoenixl is listed, hostname [-s|-a|-i|-f|-d|-y], reports 
"phoenixl" like it should.
In either case, nslookup [/anyhostname/] reports ";; connection timed 
out; no servers could be reached".

'resolv.conf' contains:
nameserver   192.168.1.1

'ifcfg-eth0' contains:
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
TYPE=Ethernet
DHCP_HOSTNAME=phoenixl

ifconfig -a reports:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr /mac address/
          inet addr:192.168.1.105  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:10042 (9.8 Kb)  TX bytes:7455 (7.2 Kb)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x7000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:3593 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3593 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:244982 (239.2 Kb)  TX bytes:244982 (239.2 Kb)

netstat -nr reports:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt 
Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 
eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 
eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U         0 0          0 lo
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 
eth0

phoenix1 and phoenix2 can ping phoenixl by name.
phoenixl can not ping phoenix1 and phoenix2 by name.

p.s.: do you know of a command or an otherwise short program to convert 
end-of-line characters (to go from Linux to DOS and back)  in text files?

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