On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Timo Kamph wrote: > Ok, I can ping the nameserver and name resolution will work if I pass the > servers IP-address to host on the commandline: Try to change the permissions of the file /etc/resolv.conf and/or /etc/host.conf to 755 (maybe that 744 is sufficient). For me, that fixed the problem. wfg, Gaspard