Thanks for all your help - i was just being impatiant with the line and then
confused by traceroute.

The machine is now happily ipnat'ing for the house.

Thanks again.

-- 
    They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to
be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making
them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always.
    - Frank Chalmers in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars".