Yep now it seems that I can ftp and telnet into my box as I wanted to, I had
a proper IP in the /etc/hosts file, heh, I forgot the rest after 24.  I have
ip forwarding to another address.  It does seem however, that some apps like
Apache and tin won't work properly.  Whenever I start them, it quits and
gives me the "Can't find fully qualified domain name" error then quits.
Also identd wont initiate anymore after i switched over to DHCP.  Before,
when I had the box connected directly to the cablemodem, everything worked
fine.  When I try to start identd manually, it gives me this message:
in.identd: getpeername(): Socket operation on non-socket.

> Second, if you really have "24.x.x.x" literally in your /etc/hosts,
> that is drastically wrong. Dotted qauds can contain only numerals, no
> alphabetic characters allowed.
>
> Third, if you have an IP address internal to your LAN, that's what you
> should be using, not any kind of external IP address (or, worse, as
> you seem to be trying to do, a subnet address). The whole point of
> having an internal IP network is that your machine is unconcerned what
> its representation on the external network is - the NAT box that
> connects you to that internal network takes care of this for you.

Lesse, yeah DHCP is running, and resolves everything from the DHCP server.
Would a fully qualified domainname be my entire DNS (ex.
pikachu.evillittlecreatures.org)?  Ranked file before bind, eh?  Hmm.

> Fourth, you claim you're using DHCP, in which case you shouldn't be
> entering a damn thing in /etc/hosts or in /etc/ifconfig.<if> - the
> daemon takes care of this for you. /etc/hosts should only contain your
> localhost entry and some other hosts that you want to get to without
> preforming an nslookup (presuming you've ranked file before bind in
> /etc/resolv.conf).