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From: Quanah Mount <fxqjm@aurora.alaska.edu>
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Subject: Nameserver lookups
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I recently re-compiled my kernel, and when I did so, it reset my 
sysconfig file, my hosts file, and some other of my configuration files.. 
This is extremely annoying.. might this be fixed in the next release?
I now cannot connect to places by their net names, only their ip #'s
for example
telnet aurora.alaska.edu 
does not work but
telnet 137.229.18.1
(aurora's ip #) does work
How do I fix this?
Thanks,
Quanah Mount