+++ Farhan Ahmed [linux-india] <11/12/01 15:50 -0500>:
> Sometimes when I point to any website in Netscape while running Gnome on
> Mandrake Linux 8.1, I get the following message:
> _______________________________________________
> Warning : the host www.whatever.com is unknown
> This means that some or all hosts will be unreachable

Check your DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf ... like the error says, ask your
sysadmin for the dns settings.

> The question is, where is this $SOCKS_NS environment
> variable which I need to set?

You won't need to set that at all in 99.99% of the cases.

        -srs
-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian  <---->  mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin

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