[wplug] wierd name resolution problem

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September Russ Schneider assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| John Harrold wrote:
| 
| >what does /etc/resolv.conf look like?
| >
| >it should look something like:
| >
| >nameserver 151.201.0.39
| >nameserver 151.201.0.38
| 
| Empty file.  Wierd.
| 
| Why would all my other stuff work?  Obviously, you're getting this email.

heck i don't know, i just know that /etc/resolv.conf is where programs look
to find out the ips of the name servers. perhaps when sendmail (or whatever
mail program you are using) started, it picked up the nameserver info. at
some point after that the file was cleared (the adsl-setup program can do
that for example) and then sendmail kept on chugging along with the old
info. did you try sticking name servers in /etc/resolv.conf? did that help?

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