HELP, Here is the problem. I upgraded to frozen from uiarchive.uiuc.edu over the weekend. I am having all kinds of network type problems now. Everything upgraded ok with no real problems that couldn't be fixed with a second run of install in dselect. I am running on a stand alone machine at home. I use diald to dial in to the university and run slirp and emulate ppp on my host widget.ecn.purdue.edu. So I don't have a constant connection to the net or a real hostname. Now when diald starts pppd it just hangs and diald times out. I can't ping my own local machine at all it says host is unknown. I can't print anything because lpr gives this error, "lpr: unable to get official name for local machine". Ping of my local machine returns a host unknown. Emacs takes forever to load because it is trying to find the hostname. However hostname returns my fake machine name just fine. dnsdomainname fails with "dnsdomainname: Host name lookup failure". When named starts it gives these errors in /var/log/messages:
May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12619]: starting. named 4.9.5-REL Mon Apr 28 20:39:58 MET DST 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian/bind/bind-4.9.5/named May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12619]: cache zone "" loaded (serial 0) May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12619]: primary zone "localhost" loaded (serial 1) May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12619]: primary zone "127.in-addr.arpa" loaded (serial 1) May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12620]: Ready to answer queries. May 30 11:12:50 widget-servis named[12620]: sysquery: sendto([198.41.0.4].53): Network is unreachable I didn't change any of the conf files for network related programs... What is going on? Here are some of the files which might be of help. hostname: widget-servis resolv.conf: domain ecn.purdue.edu search widget.ecn.purdue.edu widget.ecn widget nameserver 128.46.131.20 nameserver 128.46.131.20 nameserver 128.46.131.20 hosts:(harbor is the main dns at ecn.purdue.edu) 127.0.0.1 widget-servis.ecn.purdue.edu widget-servis loopback localhost 128.46.129.76 harbor.ecn.purdue.edu harbor harbor.ecn [other common hosts snipped] Like I said this all worked just fine for 1.2 now I am having all kinds of trouble after upgrade to 1.3. Any and all help needed. Thanks, Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .