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From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline)
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Subject: Re: arrrgh, this was working Sunday...
To: ulf@z-code.ncd.com (Ulf Zimmermann)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 17:06:55 -0800 (PST)
Cc: kline@tera.com, questions@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <9601031652.ZM29101@zolaris.z-code.com> from "Ulf Zimmermann" at Jan 3, 96 04:52:02 pm
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According to Ulf Zimmermann:
> 
> On Jan 3, 15:36, Gary Kline wrote:
> > Subject: arrrgh, this was working Sunday...
> >
> >
> > Last Sunday I  managed to auto-retrieve the file cnews.tar.Z
> > by typing ``make'' in the /cdrom/ports dir.  Now, while trying
> > to build elm, this happened:
> >
> > >> elm2.4.tar.Z doesn't seem to exist on this system.
> > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://dsinc.myxa.com/pub/elm/
> > dsinc.myxa.com: gethostbyname herror (2):  Host name lookup failure
> > >> Attempting to fetch from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/distfiles/
> > ftp.freebsd.org: gethostbyname herror (2):  Host name lookup failure
> > >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retreive this
> > >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles and try again.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > What did I do?   I remember adding some lines to /etc/sysconfig and
> > two new sites to /etc/resolv.conf.  When I do a `ps ax' I see
> > ncftp trying to retrieve the elm tar file...
> >
> > Ideas, net gurus???
> >
> > gary kline
> >-- End of excerpt from Gary Kline
> 
> 
> Looks like you screwed up your /etc/resolv.conf. Check it, because in this file
> are the DNS servers for lookup.
> 

		This was my first thought.   I *had* the following
		in /etc/resolv.conf:

#
#  resolv.conf :: created on 18dec95
#
domain thought.org
#
nameserver 158.152.1.193
nameserver 158.152.1.65


		Then last night added two line, which I have since 
		commented out:


#
# added 02jan96 ::
#
###nameserver 192.135.189.20
###nameserver 192.135.189.10  :: 03jan96


		Do I have to reboot to re-initialize the setup?
		Things still fail even thought I've yanked the
		bottom lines....

		Thanks for the tip; sorry to spend the bandwidth.

		gary