SSH Login timeout

[Aero Maxx D]

Hi All,

I have been having some internet issues at home today, and as a result I 
have been unable to login to a fedora machine on my local network from a 
windows 7 machine also on the local network.

I believe it must have something to do with trying to resolve the ip of 
the local machine trying to connect to a hostname which it is having 
problems in doing so due to lack of internet.

Is there anything I am able to do to solve this issue when there is no 
internet connection available ?

Thanks
Daniel.