From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 9:35:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chimera.noanet.net (chimera.noanet.net [66.119.192.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB6C37B425 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 09:35:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (sense-mksmith-35.oz.net [216.39.168.35]) by chimera.noanet.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g34HZSR8043550 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 09:35:28 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 09:35:28 -0800 Subject: Re: Host lookup trouble... From: Michael Smith To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 On 4/4/02 4:56 AM, "Paul Caselton" espoused: > 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. > > Hello: Make sure you have properly configured /etc/resolv.conf with the domain and IP information for your DNS server. domain nameserver nameserver <2nd ip if you wish> Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _ __ ____ ___ _ __ ______ ______ |Michael K. Smith / | / // __ \ / | / | / // ____//_ __/ |Chief IP Engineer / |/ // / / // /| | / |/ // __/ / / |mksmith@noanet.net / /| // /_/ // ___ | / /| // /___ / / |Cell: 206.579.8360 /_/ |_/ \____//_/ |_|/_/ |_//_____/ /_/ |Land: 206.783.3364 |Fax: 866.422.4887 |Pager: 800.696.6021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Key: 485A 7807 2DFD CAC7 8E5D F348 4F19 89AC 0ED6 0B72 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message