From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 20:47:25 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 20:47:22 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail0.m2mtechnology.com (unknown [203.202.15.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5691137B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from techo (ip131.m2mtechnology.com [203.202.15.131]) by mail0.m2mtechnology.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA39791 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 15:49:44 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd@m2mtechnology.com) From: "Roger Wilco" To: Subject: configuring the resolver Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 15:51:44 +1100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0009_01C0612E.C3E357A0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C0612E.C3E357A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just installed FreeBSD 4.2 and I can't get it to use the correct name server. I created the file /etc/resolve.conf and put my domain and name server's address in it, but when I do anything that involves a DNS lookup it queries the local machine. What am I missing? This is a dumb question that I should know the answer to but it has always worked out of the box for every other installation I have done. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C0612E.C3E357A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I just = installed=20 FreeBSD 4.2 and I can't get it to use the correct name server. I created = the=20 file /etc/resolve.conf and put my domain and name server's address in = it, but=20 when I do anything that involves a DNS lookup it queries the local = machine. What=20 am I missing?=20 This is a dumb question that I should know the answer to but it has = always=20 worked out of the box for every other installation I have=20 done.

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