Quoting DAVID CALAFRANCESCO in a message to GLENN MENZIE
  concerning "IAK WOES" in the F-OS2INET conference..
DC>Have you tested pings to your providers servers IP addresses instead of to
  >their domain names? If the IP addresses work and the domain names don't 
then
  >the problem is DNS resolution. Check your resolv/resolv2 file(s) and 
verify 
  >nameserver is working OK.
Bingo.  Or rather, pingo.  The ISP pinged alright via IP (it hadn't via 
the domain name) and when I read through the APARS noticed the resolv 
(couldn't find a resolv2, is it missing or optional?) file was not 
being updated properly on occassion when DOIP settings were changed 
(system added, deleted).
They suggested deleting the resolv as a local fix which I did.  
Reentered the information, new resolv created and we're off to the 
races.
Thanks very much for the pointer.
                  gmenzie@ica.net -/- sysop@1:250/114
       Message written in Port Credit, ON, Canada on 03-15-97 at 14:09
 * 1st 2.00 #741s * I'm not sloppy, I'm organizationally challenged.
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