Thanks Dave,
I was off line for the past few days (just fixed it)
because the service was all screwed up.
I built a seconf esmith box and
looked at how the default was
configured. Deleted all the templates
in the template-custom folder
that I didn't want including the
name folder, and issued the
command to rebuild the templates
and restart named.
Due to the fact that win98 has some
incompatability with pppoe, (something
I found out a couple of months after getting
dsl and changing over to a linux distro that
wasn't as easy to set up as e-smith.
sme automatically proxied my connection
for me so it hid the win98's little secret on me:-)
So once the name service was properly configured
I was able to connect to the internet.
In any case, this does confirm the fix even though
I stumbled accross it myself. Either way, thanks
for the help.
Scott