There was no installation error. As I mentioned in an earlier email, traces from ppp showed that there is a misinteraction between Plan 9's ppp client and the ISP's ppp server, which we did fix enough to get connected. Unfortunately, the ppp does not seem to stay connected for very long, probably another ppp misinteraction. It has nothing to do with a failed installation: his binaries are fine (if buggy).
Editing /lib/ndb/local is also not the problem. Ppp writes to /net/ndb with dns server and local ip information (as does ipconfig's dhcp client) -- if you only have a single machine that is automatically configured, you never need to touch /lib/ndb. Russ
