On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:

>   Now I'm having trouble with my connection to my ISP.  I can connect.
> But then I can't run any programs that work with my isp connection.
> Like pine, lynx etc,  But the funny thing is, they all seem to work if
> I am logged in as root.
> 
>  Lynx opens in the xterm window, but then I get "unable to connect to
> remote host" messages.  What could I have messed up that would only affect
> the normal users connection and not the root connection to the ISP?

What is the output of `ls -l /etc/resolv.conf'? It needs to be
world-readable.