From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 4:56:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c2bapps2.btconnect.com (c2bapps2.btconnect.com [193.113.209.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C25D37B41C for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 04:56:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from crispy (actually host host213-123-39-13.in-addr.btopenworld.com) by c2bapps2 with SMTP (XT-PP); Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:56:10 +0100 Reply-To: From: "Paul Caselton" To: Subject: Host lookup trouble... Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:56:36 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello All, I am having some trouble getting my FreeBSD box to ping anything outside of our local network, have set-up the /etc/hosts file for all the machines locally (they are all Win2000). And can ping them all fine using IP addresses or the aliases. But as soon as I try to ping a web address I get: ping: cannot resolve *******.co.uk: Host name lookup failure Our Internet access is through one of the said W2k boxes, it is running a software proxy server, have managed to get Lynx accessing the web through it, although this was using an http_proxy environment variable. I'm thinking I need to have access to a name server, and have set the service up on our proxy (192.168.0.1:53) to point to our ISPs primary server, but I'm not sure where to go from here, or even if I'm going in the right direction. Any suggestions / help would be appreciated. Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message