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To: Steve Bartling <bartling@ibmoto.com>
cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco),
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Subject: Re: SLIP, help me, oh please HELP ME :-) 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 13:05:55 -0800
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>> Fix likely problems first: you are setting up nameservice and then trying to
>> use it over a (possibly) incompletely configured link.  Change the "route
>> add" to something like
>
>
>I forgot to mention that htp1 was defined in my /etc/hosts file.
>
>I'll try this, thanks for the suggestion.
>
>Anyone care to hazard a guess as to why this worked before but does not 
>work now ?

   Configuration of /etc/host.conf has bind first rather than hosts first?

-DG