On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Fujie Zhang Root wrote:

> can get the internet connection from a normal user account or root
> account. however, i can only launch the internet applications such as
> ftp, telnet, etc from the root acoount. if i do it from the normal user
> account i got error message saying host unknown.

Make sure /etc/resolv.conf is world readable.
 e.g.: "chmod 644 /etc/resolv.conf"