Today I finally got around to configuring pppd and chat to connect NetBSD to
my internet provider by modem.  Even though there is no /etc/ppp/ directory
in the source tree I was able to manufacture an options file and a modem
script by studying the man pages, and I can now connect to XMission without
any difficulty.

The problem is, once I get connected I can't do anything on the network
unless I know the IP address of the computer I'm trying to reach!  Any name
address that isn't specified in my /etc/hosts file comes back as "host
unknown".  The computer doesn't even _try_ to look for the DNS.

I've tried setting up named, which was my best guess for a program to access
a DNS server.  But I've had no luck, and I can't even make heads or tails of
the named.boot file even though I've stared at the named man page and the
existing /etc/namedb/* files for hours.

(BTW: named seems to expect its boot file to be /etc/named.boot, even though
it's installed in /etc/namedb/named.boot)

Can anybody tell me how to set this up so that NetBSD knows to look for
XMission's DNS for undefined names?
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Trevin Beattie          "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
trevin@xmission.com     for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
      {:->                                     --unknown