Dear managers!
I feel ashamed for having bothered you with such a minor issue. The
address resolution worked well for root, which I forgot to mention.
Changing the protection for /etc/resolv.conf (containing the correct
nameserver addresses) from 600 to 644 did the trick.
Regards
Peter
Original message follows:
I have been successful configuring a dial-out connection to some ISP
using pppd 2.3.9 on a VERY old DEC3000/300 (yes, indeed) under Tru64
V4.0F. Almost everything works ok, but address resolution doesn't work
within Netscape (maybe something's wrong with reverse address lookup).
ping, nslookup, ftp, telnet all work fine. I can even pull e-mails from
a POP server using netscape messenger, but navigator complains about
unreachable servers. Rumors say that there are some peculiarieties with
respect to BIND, ppp and dynamic IP addresses/client names. Can someone
please shed some light on this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
--
Dipl.-Phys. Rolf-Peter Kienzle (Systems Manager)
Dept. of Remote Sensing and Land Information Systems
University of Freiburg, D-79085 Freiburg, Germany
Tel/Fax +49 761 203 8643/3701 e-mail: kienzlep_at_uni-freiburg.de
Received on Tue Mar 13 2001 - 17:37:04 NZDT