Adventurer wrote:

> Well, I ran the Configure utility once again and was unable to obtain a 
> working network once again.
> 
> The timed and sendmail programs keep saying that they cannot find my 
> hostname: dingBAT.netbsd.home.

You must either configure and run the name server daemon (named) or else
use the /etc/hosts file, which must of course contain an entry for your
host, eg. 1.2.3.4 dingbat.netbsd.home,dingbat

> And of course when rc.net netstart run, they say 
> dingBAT.netbsd.home: Bad value.
> 
> domainname returns a blank -- of course when I create /etc/defaultdomain, 
> it reports whatever is there.
> hostname returns dingBAT.netbsd.home.

Forget about domainname, it is only for your NIS (formerly YP) domain,
which has nothing in common with your Internet domain. If you're not
using NIS, delete /etc/defaultdomain. If you want to use NIS, get a
good book about it. ;-)

> Please let me know which files I need to attach for someone to offer me 
> assistance in configuring my system so that I can _finally_ use it to 
> connect to my internet provider using PPP.  I have not even tried to use 
> PPP so I don't even know if that works!  But, I can scrounge around and 
> get a pppd from somewhere, though.
> 
> Any help (here or private email) will be greatly appreciated and will go 
> into my log to be later posted as a 'Getting Started with NetBSD: a 
> novice's guide.'

This `guide' already exists, but is called manual pages. :-)


Waldi