From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 14 03:32:13 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA18858 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 03:32:13 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA18846 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 03:32:02 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11483; Tue, 14 Feb 95 12:28:05 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (MAA23396); Tue, 14 Feb 1995 12:29:57 +0059 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199502141130.MAA23396@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: Nameserver To: jg@euronet.nl (Jan_Guldemond) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 12:29:57 +0059 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502141031.LAA12115@mail.euronet.nl> from "Jan_Guldemond" at Feb 14, 95 11:31:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 825 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > But I'm trying a name lookup on host.jcn.nl. The FreeBSD-host on the LAN. > The IP-number is defined in the /etc/hosts file. And the /etc/resolv.conf > tells the system to look in the hosts file first. What else can I do to get > the workstation to succeed in the name-lookup? The /etc/hosts file is only used to do name lookups on the local FreeBSD machine. It can never be used to do name lookup's from remote machines. If you are using trumpet, you need to have a full nameserver up and running on the network with the correct entries in them. The nameserver is called "named". The rest of it in the man page :-). ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe