Jonathan Eisch <jeisch@boku.net>  wrote:
 > Can anyone think of a reason why the super user of my system would have
 > nslookup working just fine, looking at a real DNS server with a real IP,
 > and working right.  While the regular users look at the localhost (not a
 > dns server) with an IP of 0.0.0.0 as the default name server, and can't
 > find anyone's IP on the internet.  FTP and telnet don't work as a
 > regular user, unless I use IP's.  Any ideas?  I don't have anything
 > strange in my resolv.conf.

is resolv.conf world readable?

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  124 Aug  4 10:56 /etc/resolv.conf