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From: verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark Verber)
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Subject: Re: How to change the machine default nameserver
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Date: 22 Sep 90 17:53:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: mzaik@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu's message of 21 Sep 90 14:18:12 GMT

> The default nameserver of our sun is incorrect.  This is 
> evident by the fact that every it cannot reolve host names.
> When I run "nstest", it polls the address 127.0.0.10 as the
> name server.

Yes.. that address looks rather wrong.  I expect you meant it to be 127.1?
Anyway, you can edit the file /etc/resolv.conf which gives a list of what
name servers you will query.  You can see man resolv.conf(5) for complete
information.

Cheers,
Mark