plip installation (Host name lookup failure)

[David Karlin <dkarlin@coloradomtn.edu>]

Hello,
I'm doing an installation from the potato floppy boot disk set
dated July 5, 2000.   Kernel and modules are installed; plip is
configured and I can ping hosts on the Internet by name from VC2.

Over on VC1, the installation scripts are running, and I'm at the
stage "Install the Base System".  I choose "network" and leave
the download url and proxy settings at their defaults 
(http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current
and proxy: none).

When it tries to fetch the files, I get this message:
"nf_http_fetchfile :: http.us.debian.org couldn't be resolved,
Host name lookup failure (h_errno=2)."

This seems strange, since that host responds to pings on VC2.

Does this look familiar to anyone?

TIA.
-- 
David Karlin
dkarlin@coloradomtn.edu
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