* Michael Seewald wrote on Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:46 +0200:
Yes, that does it. Apparently, name resolution failed!!!
Today, I noticed that these effects disappear when I change permissions (in yast) to "easy" and restart the pppd daemon. Apparently, SuSEconfig changes pppd to group dialout with a SUID bit. When the daemon is started with the new permissions it somehow brings up these effects.
Well, going OT now... Do an strace of PING when it's not resolving. Maybe some permissions are screwed up. I could imagine such effects when having a /etc/resolv.conf readable for dialout only. Well, my PING (SuSE 7.0 I believe) isn't dropping it's UID0, so you would probably need a "---r-----" root.dialout /etc/resolv.conf or such. Ohh, and please send the strace to me (PM) and not to the list! oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.