On Tue, 6 May 1997 16:34:40 +0000 (UTC),
"Jason S." <root@myname.my.domain> wrote:
> 
> But I'm still wondering why pppd hangs for so long with 127.0.0.1
> in resolv.conf... Why would pppd care what nameserver I'm using?

Probably pppd is waiting for named to resolve a name.  Here, of
course, named is waiting other name servers (unreachable) to respond
to its inquiry until it times out.

You can see if this is indeed happening by "netstat -nf inet".

Ken