DNS woes

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

Another sysadmnin type question/problem.

So far I have been using a linux machine without any DNS running (had no 
need for it). But yesterday I gave my box the ip of the DNS server (my 
ISP's) because I needed it to use DNS to resolve the POP mail server's 
address.

But now I find that when I ping any machine (even ones on my subnet) the 
ping takes forever. Even if I ping using the ip address and not the name. 
I've narrowed the problem down to the DNS since when I remove the DNS 
entries from resolv.conf my ping problems go away. Seems that when I use 
ping it tries to resolve the ip address to a name. So for some reason 
accessing the DNS server is taking a long time ....

Could this be because none of the machines I ping have names?

Could anyone tell me why this problem is occuring and how I can fix it? 
(Aside from removing DNS services).

Jc
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