From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 08:00:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA23539 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:00:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA23533 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov (daemon@cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.101]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA08289; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:00:50 GMT Received: from auk.fsl.noaa.gov by cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov with SMTP (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA136711249; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:00:49 GMT Message-Id: <325526BF.5D3C@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 09:01:19 -0600 From: Sean Kelly Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.10 9000/725) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: D B Dews Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new and dumb 2 References: <32551BE2.435F@camel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk D B Dews wrote: > Thanks to all for your help with previous question. I found > /etc/sysconfig, and learned vi sufficiently to edit it a bit, You may find that "ee" is about twenty times easier to use than "vi". Try it. > but where > in this file do I place the DNS (as called in DOS/NT land, don't know > what you call it.) The domain name server IP address? We call it DNS too. And sometimes BIND. And sometimes named. And sometimes "the resolver." And sometimes a real pain in the .... :-) But anyway, you set up DNS in the file /etc/resolv.conf. Your file should contain your DNS domain name after the "domain" keyword, and the IP addresses of one or more name servers after each "nameserver" keyword. For example: domain camel.com nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 1.2.3.5 > defaultdomainname=camel.com [my domain name] This is actually the NIS domain name, not the DNS domain name. You can set it back to NO. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/