Computer Help!

[BrianG]

I did try flushing the DNS, but that didn't work. Even tried disabling/re-enabling the network adaptors to "refresh" them, but no go there either. I just thought it was odd that I could remote desktop between boxes, but pinging and/or network browsing was touch and go.

IIRC, the router's lease is set to one day. Normally, I shut down my main box every day to save power since I won't use it all night and the next day at work. My laptop I leave on pretty much all the time, but it goes into standby. The webserver will be up all the time. The iMac (my g/f's) I'm not sure about. The kids computer is mostly shut off because my son uses it the most and I only get him on the weekends.

What's nice about a static webserver IP is that I can edit the hosts file on all the boxes so that I can use a "www.domain.com" name instead of having to remember an IP address.