This did the trick. Thanks Phil!
This disrupted my operations here for a few days, and seems like it could
impact other people upgrading to hamm from bo. So should I file a bug
report on this, and if so how do I do it?
--ken
> > I very recently upgraded my home system from bo to hamm. As soon
> > as I installed the netbase package, diald stopped working. The
> > PPP link would connect, but the PPP link no longer was selected
> > as the default route. However, I could establish the link using
> > the 'pon' command. (I was using a fairly old revision of PPP,
> > maybe ppp_2.2.0f-23.)
> >
> On your problem:
> There were some problems reported with the /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> The networks line says " files dns" which means that when resolving a network
> address, libc will try first /etc/networks, then ask on DNS.
> However route tries to resolve the net diald passes to it and blocks in there
> (the DNS server cannot be contacted because there's no route to it, and the
> route cannot be established because the net has to be resolved).
>
> Try removing the dns entry from the networks line of /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
> Anyways, this is problematic to have this networks line with dns, and a
> future version of base-files is supposed to fix this.
>
> Phil.
>
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