Re: DNS failure

[Ron Flory <rjflory@feist.com>]

> 
> You may be missing the host.conf file. Should contain
> 
> order hosts,bind

 Right (note: 'order', not 'oder' [chuckle...]).


Also /etc/resolv.conf should have look something like this (the second
line is the important one):

  search rjf.net ifrsys.com
  nameserver 127.0.0.1 204.233.71.1

 of course the (second) nameserver should be that of YOUR nameserver. 
PPP may override this, but it doesn't hurt to specify it.


> > The Man pages for PON/POFF/PLOG imply there should be an options_out file
> > (which PPPConfig didn't create).  I copied options to options_out, with no
> > success.  Once connected I can Ping, etc. sites if I know the actual IP
> > number.  I checked within OS8.1 that the name lookup was functioning at the
> > ISP.  Where to now?  Thanks.

 This is bogus info, ignore the options_out stuff.


> > BTW, during boot I get "Unexpected IRQ3" messages.  During PPP I get
> > "Unexpected IRQ5" messages.  Neither seems to effect anything.  Is this a
> > remnant of x86 code?
> 
> Nope, some strange hardware in your box Linux doesn't know about.

 Yea, I've never seen this, and I'd take a closer look...

ron