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nameserver problems after 1.3 upgrade! HELP



HELP,

Here is the problem.  I upgraded to frozen from uiarchive.uiuc.edu
over the weekend.  I am having all kinds of network type problems now.
Everything upgraded ok with no real problems that couldn't be fixed
with a second run of install in dselect.  I am running on a stand
alone machine at home.  I use diald to dial in to the university and
run slirp and emulate ppp on my host widget.ecn.purdue.edu.  So I
don't have a constant connection to the net or a real hostname.  Now
when diald starts pppd it just hangs and diald times out.  I can't
ping my own local machine at all it says host is unknown.  I can't
print anything because lpr gives this error, "lpr: unable to get
official name for local machine".  Ping of my local machine returns a
host unknown.  Emacs takes forever to load because it is trying to
find the hostname. However hostname returns my fake machine name just
fine. dnsdomainname fails with "dnsdomainname: Host name lookup
failure".  When named starts it gives these errors in
/var/log/messages:

May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12619]: starting.  named 4.9.5-REL Mon Apr 28 20:39:58 MET DST 1997 ^Iroot@frigg:/debian/bind/bind-4.9.5/named
May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12619]: cache zone "" loaded (serial 0)
May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12619]: primary zone "localhost" loaded (serial 1)
May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12619]: primary zone "127.in-addr.arpa" loaded (serial 1)
May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12620]: Ready to answer queries.
May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12620]: sysquery: sendto([198.41.0.4].53): Network is unreachable

I didn't change any of the conf files for network related
programs... What is going on?

Here are some of the files which might be of help.

hostname:
widget-servis

resolv.conf:
domain ecn.purdue.edu
search widget.ecn.purdue.edu widget.ecn widget
nameserver 128.46.131.20
nameserver 128.46.131.20
nameserver 128.46.131.20

hosts:(harbor is the main dns at ecn.purdue.edu)
127.0.0.1                       widget-servis.ecn.purdue.edu widget-servis loopback localhost
128.46.129.76                   harbor.ecn.purdue.edu harbor harbor.ecn
[other common hosts snipped] 

Like I said this all worked just fine for 1.2 now I am having all
kinds of trouble after upgrade to 1.3. 

Any and all help needed.

Thanks,
Brian 
-- 
Mechanical Engineering				   servis@ecn.purdue.edu
Purdue University		    http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis


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