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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 19:14:14 -0800 (PST)
From: stevel <stevel@logues.rhn.orst.edu>
To: Richard Muff <rmuff@value.net>
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Subject: Re: Host name lookup failures
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On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Richard Muff wrote:

> I have set up user process PPP as shown in the handbook, however when
> I try to telnet into my school workstations I get long pause followed by
> a hostname lookup failure.  I have also tried to ftp into freebsd.org
> and failed.  What steps do I need to take to finish configuring it?
> Thank you.
> 

Put a line to the effect of:

nameserver <the ip addrs of your DNS>

in /etc/resolv.conf

-STEVEl