From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 18 23:53:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA29280 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 23:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from value.net (root@value.net [204.188.125.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA29275 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 23:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from richardm (j67.value.net [206.14.137.67]) by value.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA15913 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 23:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <33586B55.1EE7@value.net> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 23:51:01 -0700 From: Richard Muff Organization: Home Computer X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hostname lookup failure. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When I dial my ISP up and try to telnet, etc., I get a hostname lookup failure after a very long pause. I posted this question once before, but I forgot to mention that I had already configured the resolv.conf with two nameservers, so everyone and their mom wrote back and I still didn't figure it out.