From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 16:44:07 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA14206 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 16:44:07 -0700 Received: from Mabuse.Vir.com (News.Vir.com [199.84.154.68]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA14195 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 16:44:03 -0700 Received: from zeta by Vir.com (8.6.10/2.0) id SAA08931; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 18:40:16 -0500 Received: (from rjbproc@localhost) by zeta (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA00326; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 19:43:38 GMT Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 19:43:37 +0000 () From: Robert Burns To: obrien@antares.aero.org cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iijppp auto & pine (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Aug 1995, Mike O'Brien wrote: > I have found that any reference to "localhost" causes a DNS lookup, > if "resolv.conf" is in place. Maybe this is what you're seeing. > > Mike, Thanks for your response. When I remove resolv.conf the problem goes away but causes DNS lookup failures if I try to ftp to a remote site for instance. Any Ideas on how to get around this? My resolv.conf file is set up as follows: domain vir.com <---- my ISP nameserver 199.84.154.65 <---- another DNS address nameserver 199.202.197.65 <---- his address ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Burns (rjbproc@vir.com) Mtl., Ca. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------