On Wed, 12 May 1999, Richard Massey wrote:

> Gidday,
> 
> I've got 1.4beta (May 2) running on my Q650.
> The machine is on a local network which has
> an internet connection using a proxy on a
> dialup ppp link. Local network issues (ping,telnet)
> work fine however I cannot get out into the internet
> (though I can in MacOS).
> 
> My machine "bsdmac.blah.blah.nz"
> Proxy 	   "proxy.blah.blah.nz"
> domain     "blah.blah.nz"
> All have valid class c ip addresses
> all are entered in my hosts file
> we do NOT have a name server running
> 
> resolv.conf (1.4) no longer uses the lookup command
> with that functionality in nsswitch.conf.
> The man pages are a little terse but I think I made
> appropriate changes from the default and have the
> dns line reading "file" only. Still no luck (sigh).

You should be messing with the "hosts: " line - there is no "dns" line.

On a machine directly on the net, I have:

hosts:          files dns


There are a lot of other things I think everyone will be able to suggest
as to how to get this working. :-)

Take care,

Bill