FC6 - PING and <hostname> issues - wireless network

[ziadnaamani]

I've been working on this for 3 days non-stop, I would appreciate any input:

I am very new to Fedora, and linux in general. Last week I installed FC6 (server installation) on my macbook using Parallels. The connect to the internet using bridge ethernet connection to the host's airport adapter. The hostname is localhost.localdomain. when running ifconfig in /sbin i receive:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:42:1A:66:30
inet addr:10.0.1.191 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2002:4241:109d:0:21c:42ff:fe1a:6630/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:42ff:fe1a:6630/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3943 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2050058 (1.9 MiB) TX bytes:616551 (602.1 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4c00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:42976 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:42976 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:16798589 (16.0 MiB) TX bytes:16798589 (16.0 MiB)[/PHP]

when I ping localhost i get

PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.064 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.064 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.064 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.063 ms

when i ping localhost.localdomain i get

PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.062 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.065 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.062 ms

when i ping loclhost.localdomain from any other computer on the wireless network i get

PING localhost.localdomain(24.28.193.9) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 24.28.193.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=42 time=17.4 ms
64 bytes from 24.28.193.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=42 time=22.0 ms
64 bytes from 24.28.193.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=42 time=21.2 ms
64 bytes from 24.28.193.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=42 time=15.1 ms
64 bytes from 24.28.193.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=42 time=15.7 ms

as a matter of fact, when i ping any machine's hostname from any other machine on the wireless network i get 24.28.193.9

i connect to the internet using a DNS and my ip is generated automatically on all machines.

My question is why do i receive 127.0.0.1 when i ping localhost.localdomain from my local host (the FC6 VM)?
why can't i ping any computer on the wireless network from another computer on the network
and actually receive a real ip address?

Thank you, i highly appreciate any input, and I can provide any further info