Uh, gee . . . I'm losing it.  The excerpt came from the MacOSXHints 
site.  My apologizies.

http://www.macosxhints.com/

Ward Oldham


On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 11:32  PM, Ward Oldham wrote:

> Hi Lee,
>
> I'm sure you read the same things that I do, but for everyone's 
> benefit, the following excerpt was copied from the Macintouch site.  
> It's gotten its share of attention on MacFixIt too.
>
> lookupd bug in 10.2.2 causes DNS problems
> Symptoms: Internet applications, web browsers being the most obvious, 
> lose the ability to find host IP addresses resulting in "hostname not 
> found", or similar errors. Though this error is sometimes legitimate, 
> it happens on major sites (Yahoo! Google) and it happens sporadically. 
> Upon further research, I discovered that performing an 'nslookup' on 
> the same host name from the command returns the correct IP address, 
> and I am able to navigate to the IP address without problems. This 
> problem has been traced to the lookupd service used by OSX 10.2.2. 
> Further documentation on the problem can found int this thread on the 
> Apple Discussions site.
>
> Temporary Fix: You can temporarily fix this bug by running the 
> following command (notice that the following command contains 
> backticks not single quotes):
>
>  % sudo kill -1 `cat /var/run/lookupd.pid`
>
> Apparently, not everybody is experiencing this problem so the fix may 
> not work for everyone either.
>
> Ward Oldham
>
>
>
> On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 11:21  PM, Lee Larson wrote:
>
>> I think the homeland security stuff has gone on long enough and 
>> certainly won't be settled here. Let's get back to more germane 
>> issues.
>>
>> For example, how many of you are having trouble with X.10.2 losing 
>> domain name services? I run my own name server, so I thought for sure 
>> that was where the problem originated when my G4 started losing DNS. 
>> But then the iBook started doing the same thing, so I've decided it's 
>> in X. Is there a permanent fix? I go in and restart the service, but 
>> that only fixes it for a while.
>>
>>
>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 
>> 26
>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>>
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