From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 22:18:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC7216A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 22:18:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp804.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp804.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3B6343D55 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 22:18:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donaldj1066@fastmail.fm) Received: from unknown (HELO pres7000.mylan.net) (donaldj@ameritech.net@69.212.18.215 with plain) by smtp804.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Oct 2004 22:18:37 -0000 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:18:32 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <1097271639.2782.20.camel@ringo.linux.dp> In-Reply-To: <1097271639.2782.20.camel@ringo.linux.dp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410081718.32633.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: resolv.conf missing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 22:18:37 -0000 On Friday 08 October 2004 04:40 pm, Lance Earl wrote: > I am planning to convert my redhat server (www.dallypost.com) to > 5.x freebsd when 5.x is released as stable. Until then, I am > working with 5.1.2 to get familiar with it. > > I have installed it on a dhcp network with the following: > > dhcp server: 192.168.0.1 > fedora computer: 192.168.0.2 > bsd computer: 192.168.0.3 > > >From the v 5.x computer I can ping 182.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. > > When I try to ping 192.168.0.3, the ping fails. I can however > ping 192.168.0.4 successfully. I cannot ping anything on the > Internet. > > Problem 1: During the install, I set the ip to 192.168.0.3, yet > the bsd computer is responding as 192.168.0.4. I suspect your dhcp server has reassigned the ip. ifconfig will tell you what the ip address is for the bsd computer. > > Problem 2: Because I cannot ping the internet, I went to take a > look at etc/resolv.conf but it is not there. Put resolv.conf in. This is something I've always had to do after a fresh install. Are you familiar with what should be in it? > > I have installed v 4.9 on multiple occasions and it has always > worked fine. Installion of 5.1.2 exactly the same way fails to > connect to the internet via my gateway. Any help will be > appreciated. > Hope that helps a bit. Don -- Donald J. O'Neill donaldj1066@fastmail.fm