On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Richard Rauch wrote:

> Rather than drop ~$80 or so on a router, I thought that I'd get acheap
> second NIC for an old computer and have it manage my DSL modem for me.

Sounds like a good idea.

> The system seems to configure the card okay, and (perhaps a bit foolishly)
> I upgraded the OS to 1.5.2 (from a 1.5_ALPHA), wiping its old config.
> 
> Now I've got some problems with the new system:
> 
>  (a) It doesn't seem to consult /etc/hosts anymore.  Instead, when it
>      has to resolve a name, it just bails out with a lookup failure.
>      What might I have done (or failed to do) to cause this?

I think this problem is actually related to your next problem. (Unless you
have configured your nsswitch.conf(5) different from the defaults.)

>  (b) If I use the IP number directly, I get messages about no route
>      to host.  I assume that this isn't simply because of the extra
>      network interface.

Show us your networking (clip out irrelevant info):

 ifconfig -aA

 netstat -rn -f inet

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/