+---- Steve Tremblett wrote:
| 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.

Problem solved.  rp-pppoe links /etc/resolv.conf ->
/etc/ppp/resolv.conf, which wasn't readable by normal users.

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Steve Tremblett