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Article #1722Re: SLIP worked in 3.0, but now it does not anymore
From: Brian Willoughby
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 07:09
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 07:09
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Brian Willoughby writes | [...] | 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. | [...] | Ideas? | Thanks, I got my answer (very quickly) from Alex Levine <alex@guava.ucsd.edu>. /etc/resolv.conf needs the IP address of the nameserver, even if NetInfo has an entry matching its IP address and name. I hate to admit that the answer was also sitting in my backup files. I should have checked, but the resolver syntax seemed too simple to be suspect, and I was putting out a couple of other fires in 3.0 at the same time (see my other posts). I tried to Cancel this article in NewsGrazer (which may have worked for all I know), but I got an alert panel complaining: Cancel failed: /usr/local/bin/inews: cannot shift -- Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Sound Signal Processing Software and Consulting NeXTmail welcome - NO EMAIL SOLICITATION without prior permission
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nwnexus!sounds!brianw From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: SLIP worked in 3.0, but now it does not anymore Message-ID: <BvJAJo.yC@sounds.wa.com> Sender: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Organization: SoundSoftware, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <BvIFqJ.1t1@sounds.wa.com> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 07:09:24 GMT Lines: 29