I can't ssh or ftp to an address, but I can ping it???  I saw another
post about a problem like this and it was suggested that his primary
nameserver was wrong.  I'm using PPPoE and I take a nameserver
dynamically when I connect, so what should be done here?  I read about
having resolv.conf say localhost and running named, but I'm a leaf-node
on residential DSL - named still must be configured to defer to the DNS
provided upon PPPoE initiation.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

$ ftp ftp.netbsd.org
ftp: No address associated with hostname
ftp> bye
$ ping ftp.netbsd.org
PING ftp.netbsd.org (204.152.184.75): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 204.152.184.75: icmp_seq=0 ttl=240 time=141.906 ms
64 bytes from 204.152.184.75: icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=130.980 ms
^C
----ftp.netbsd.org PING Statistics----
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 130.980/136.443/141.906/7.726 ms

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Steve Tremblett