DNS only works as root with Verizon DSL/Netgear router

From: dave (dave_vb_at_my-deja.com)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: 4 Nov 2003 19:45:57 -0800

I just got Verizon DSL and am connecting to it using a Netgear RT311
router. My problem is that I'm having trouble doing name resolution. I
can run nslookup/host/etc as root and can run lynx as root but if I
run mozilla, netscape4.x or opera as user, I get "foo.com could not be
found" errors unless I type the IP address of the web site into the
browser location bar. Strangely, this appears to also happen if I run
mozilla as root.

When I get my IP address from the router, the following gets written
to my /etc/resolv.conf:

search verizon.net
nameserver 192.168.0.1

where 192.168.0.1 is the IP address of the router on the local
network.

I've tried changing the nameserver to one of Verizon's (151.197.0.38)
but that doesn't seem to wwork either.

Any ideas as to what's going wrong?

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