From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 04:54:36 -0500
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: Can't get DNS to do remote query
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%  ndb/dnsquery
> pyramid ip
pyramid ip	134.197.40.253
> pogonip ip
!dns: not found
> 

what happens if you use the true (ie, fully qualified) domain name of the machine?