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HISTORY:

When I installed 3.0 (a clean install), I loaded the 920506 SLIP from its  
package and restored my files in /usr/dialupip/config from backup.  This worked  
fine and I was able to use SLIP to ftp to the NeXT archives and get the new  
920802 SLIP.  The latter also installed a correctly functioning set of  
binaries.

I had been successfully using /etc/resolv.conf to point to my SLIP service  
provider as a nameserver.

THE PROBLEM:

Now I cannot get any names resolved to their corresponding IP address.  ftp  
always reports <name>: unknown host, even if resolv.conf is set up correctly.   
(e.g. :
ftp> open cs.orst.edu
cs.orst.edu: unknown host

Since "nameserver.com" (a fictitious nameserver) is in my NetInfo database, I  
can ftp nameserver or ftp nameserver.com, but even with the SLIP interface up  
and connected to nameserver.com, I still get "unknown host" for cs.orst.edu,  
sonata.cc.purdue.edu, etc., when I try to open a connection to them with ftp.   
My /etc/resolv.conf has "nameserver nameserver.com" in it, so I don't know why  
it doesn't just get the IP address for cs.orst.edu from there.

I may have broken something when I tried to get "named" working with my machine  
as a slave nameserver to my provider's nameserver (hoping to automatically  
cache the IP address of the machines I most used and prevent a SLIP connection  
everytime I send or receive UUCP mail).  I had a questionable /etc/named.boot  
file and was able to get a cache dump from named, but it never worked  
correctly, so I commented out the following line in my rc.local:
#/usr/etc/named >/dev/console 2>&1

I don't see how this could still have effect since I no longer see (named) in  
the output from pid.  Perhaps someone with more knowledge of named can tell me  
what kind of effects it may have had.

I also added a button to my NeXTstep modem manager app which renamed  
resolv.conf to resolv.conf~ and back without requiring a root-privileged  
terminal session (but I doubt that I could have broken anything in  
/etc/resolv.conf with the rename() function!?!).

THE QUESTION:

Can anyone offer help or clues as to how I can restore working nameserver  
functionality through /etc/resolv.conf ?

I have an OD backup of my entire Release 3.0 Installation which was made before  
I changed anything, and all of the files on the following paths are identical  
(i.e. I don't think any of these files were corrupted by the multiple panics  
that printing under 3.0 has caused):

/ /usr/etc /usr/ucb /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin

Ideas?
Thanks,
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Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Signal Processing Software and Consulting
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