On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> And everyone lived happily ever after. :)

Yea!

> The moral of this story: Um... If someone figures *this* out, I'd love
> to hear an explanation. Somehow, "make sure you're not trying to use
> a name server that's unreachable" seems too narrow to be a good moral.

Eventually those calls to the nameserver will time out. :-) Did you have
it set to look in /etc/hosts first?

Take care,

Bill