> - the darn Solaris installs with the hosts name service set to "files".  DHCP 
> seemed to work fine, got an address from my DSL router (the DHCP server), my 
> system was on the internet, but there was no name service.  That's just 
> silly.  So I had to go and copy the /etc/resolv.conf file from my Linux box, 
> and then copy /etc/nsswitch.dns ot /etc/nsswitch.conf.  Trivial for somebody 
> who has been using Unix for a long time.  A newbie is just going to wonder 
> why their web browser isn't working.

I suspect this is a well-known issue with the version of NWAM shipped
in 2008.05; there have been a number of fixes since then and build 100
should improve the situation greatly with the integration of NWAM Phase
0.5 (aka "picea").

dsc
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