From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 13:38:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02ECC37B491 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:38:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 82071 invoked by uid 100); 15 Feb 2001 21:38:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14988.19551.666498.133652@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:38:39 -0600 To: Len Conrad , Sir Subject: Re: what do I need so FreeBSD submits DNS requests to my ISP In-Reply-To: <59562828@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Len Conrad types: > >the system doesn't seem to know where to direct dns requests. > man resolv.conf If you're using a dynamic IP address, you may want to check with your ISP, and see if they are providing the name server addresses via DHCP. If so, you need to check the dhcp setup. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message