Opinon from the pros

[wwebb at adni.net]

> Did you restart sendmail after fixing resolv.conf?  Processes only read
> resolv.conf once, the first time they need to use the resolver, and then
> the resolver library caches the settings.  So if you change it, you need to
> restart any daemon processes that perform DNS lookups.

Thank you sir for that tip--I should have thought of that...

As it says in the BIND & DNS book, "Somehow it seems to fill my 
head with ideas--only I don't exactly know what they are."