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This is a bit of a can of worms to deal with. Looking at the Microsoft desktop OS timelines, they've really messed around with the whole name resolution schemes at various times but with and without conforming to documentation. It's not a big deal, but it can cause unexpected results and performance issues sometimes.
For PPC I've seen no decent documentation that shows what the name resolution order is. But a couple of things to check:
Are the hostnames that you're trying to ping local or remote? Are you using just hostnames or FQDNs?
What is the OS on the host and if it's XP, what is the status of it's NetBIOS?
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