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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:54:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To: Keith <keith@apcs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: dns permissions 
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Keith wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I have just setup 3.1-Rel...
> 
> and have a problem with DNS
> 
> i'm using dial up with ppp
> 
> as root i can resolve anything
> as a user no such luck.
> 
> What has changed in 3.1 ?
> 
> so as root user 
> 
> ping www.freebsd.org (no problem)
> 
> as user www.freebsd.org (problem cannot resolve host)
> 
> Any help would be great

Check your permisions on /etc and /etc/resolv.conf
should be :
drwxr-xr-x  13 root  wheel  2048 Apr 28 11:03 /etc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  65 Apr 29 23:15 /etc/resolv.conf

(hint: man chmod, man chown)

-Alfred



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