>> OK, How do I change my name servers or run my own? How much of a 
>> system do I need? Can I use an old Pentium 266 MHZ laptop to run my 
>> own name server? Or, do I just point my router/gateway somewhere else 
>> other than what cox gives me? How do I prevent Cox from changing the 
>> name servers in my Linksys router?
>>
>> Does that violate my agreement with Cox? Will they know? Should I care?
>>
>> I think I might be seeing a little lite at the end of the tunnel - 
>> PLUG is great!!
> 
> 
> Hold on ... I don't think that setting up your own DNS is going to 
> really resolve your problem.  It might speed up your DNS requests but 
> its not going to solve your problem ....
> 
> lets look at the output of your cat /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> why does it say "search pmi.com" at the begining?  If you go to pmi.com 
> do you see the under construction page ... and if you type "google" into 
> your URL bar (without the .com on the end) do you see the same page?
> 
> This is because anytime you enter a bad hostname (without the domain 
> part) the search line in resolv.conf tells it to try google.pmi.com ....
> 
> so, remove that search line and you won't see that craziness anymore. 
> How it got there is another matter ... do you use static IPs or DHCP ... 
> if DHCP then that may have been given to you.  If not ... somehow it got 
> typed in there.  Who owns the file, what are the permissions and when 
> was it edited last?  ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> Anyway, take your favorite editor and remove that search line and you 
> should be set ... or just type the whole name of the host.

heh, yep, pmi.com is an underconstruction site.  So sounds like you may have 
found his problem...
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