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Old 27th April 2014
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Hello, and welcome!
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...I can ping using an ip address but can't ping using a host address.
I am guessing, but I believe you likely have a DNS configuration problem. Your dhcpd.conf tells your LAN to use 10.255.255.1 for name resolution. Do you have a DNS server on this platform? For OpenBSD 5.4, you have a choice of BIND or NSD -- see named(8) and nsd(8), and net/unbound is available as a package. Unbound will be part of the base OS for 5.6 in November.

If you prefer, you could change your dhcpd.conf to provide your ISP's nameservers, or other publicly available nameservers, and not run a local DNS service yourself.

Last edited by jggimi; 27th April 2014 at 11:35 PM. Reason: added option to reconfigure dhcpd.conf for externally provided DNS
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