Austin,

Thanks - I removed the line and I am waiting to see if I get that crazy 
page again. So far so good.

I must confess that I am the numskull who put that line in the 
/etc/resolv.conf file since I am the only one who has access to this 
machine. I must have been reading something about resolving addresses 
and made a typo or mistake.

BTW, the under construction page that comes up from pmi.com is **not** 
the weird search page that I originally reported. I am still unsure as 
to the source of that page.

I will let you know if I get that weird search page again!

Thanks PLUG - you are awesome!!

Mark

Austin Godber wrote:

> Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Austin
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