Hi All, Thanks for the responses. To answer your questions Erik, here is /net/iproute. Unfortunately I moved to a different wifi network so the addresses are different to my initial post
0.0.0.0 /96 192.168.0.1 4 none - 192.168.0.0 /120 192.168.0.0 4i ifc 1 192.168.0.0 /128 192.168.0.0 4b ifc - 192.168.0.28 /128 192.168.0.28 4u ifc 1 192.168.0.255 /128 192.168.0.255 4b ifc - 127.0.0.0 /104 127.0.0.0 4i ifc - 127.0.0.0 /128 127.0.0.0 4b ifc - 127.0.0.1 /128 127.0.0.1 4u ifc - 127.255.255.255 /128 127.255.255.255 4b ifc - 255.255.255.255 /128 255.255.255.255 4b ifc 1 I could ping the host PC from Plan 9 and vice versa. Patryk, unfortunately that didn't seem to change anything; I still got the dns error. Bakul, The host is Windows 8.1 64-bit, network settings are intel pro mt server, using bridged mode (to my wifi adaptor.) I got these options from an earlier posting. thanks, Pete