Pardon me for e-mailing directly, but I might be of help. If I understood
everything:
a) your routing table looks like this
10.254.252.104 * 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 1 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 1 lo
default 10.254.252.110 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
b) this succeeds quickly
ping 10.254.252.110
c) this hangs for a very long time
ping <the.name.corresponding.to.the.above>
If this is the case, I believe the ping command in (c) is trying to use DNS
to resolve the name and gets no answer, so it waits until this timeout is
exceeded. I think addresses in the 10.* range are private class A
addresses, for which no internet-accessible name server should provide
resolution (correct me if this is wrong) much like the known 192.168. *
range. The Win95 box might get the name resolved by a WINS server. Could
you reply with a dump of your /etc/resolv.conf ?
Davide Bolcioni
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