I have ahd this problem on Solaris machines. I can ping out to the web
all I want . But I cant get NetBSD to look at my name server first .

Is it the /etc/nsswitch.conf file ? it has the dns files appended to it
allready.
and I have my name server in /etc/resolv.conf . I can resolve hostnames
by entering the following:
# nslookup www.yahoo.com 205.152.64.20

But otherwise It just wont look to it .