On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Bulk Mail wrote:

> Obviously etherape is trying to do some lookup and fails, but I've got no 
> idea 
While we're waiting for all that gnome cruft to dload and build on
my sacrifice box, could you exhibit /etc/resolv.conf for us?

You're not doing anything weird like kerberos or Yellow Pages (yp*)
are you?

> where... If I start etherape without nameresolution it works, so it sure 
> looks like a dns problem. :(

Looks more like an etherape problem, if stuff like nslookup or dig
(or sendmail, or mozilla or ....) is working on the same box for
the same user.

> (Running OBSD 3.9)

Alas I'm at 4.0 patched, but am not brave enough to re-install 3.9,
so I'll probably not be able to exactly duplicate your problem.

Dave
-- 
  "Confound these wretched rodents! For every one I fling away,
               a dozen more vex me!" -- Doctor Doom
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