Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 00:57:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "David A. Bader" <dbader@umiacs.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: resolv and 2.2 (-stable) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970718005656.283c-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199707171917.PAA06865@eve.umiacs.umd.edu>
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Pruning CC:. On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, David A. Bader wrote: > I'm having a nameserver problem with 2.2-stable: My machine has been > running FreeBSD (up to 2.2.2-R) from CD-ROMs, without any problems. I > use user ppp (-auto) to connect to my ISP. In the past two days, I > first cvsup'ed to RELENG_2_2_2_RELEASE and then RELENG_2_2. I did a > "make world" from /usr/src, which ran successfully to completion. I > rebuilt a 2.2-STABLE kernel, and reboot, all fine. Next, I went > through /usr/src/etc/rc.* and other recently modified files in > /usr/src/etc and copied/modified them (intelligently, I hope) into > /etc, and reboot. My ppp connection connects perfectly, and I'm using > "/etc/resolv.conf" (as I did before) instead of named. However, > hostname lookups are failing. The connection is good, though, since I > can access any site, though, with numeric ip addresses. If you're running named, then resolv.conf is ignored. Try killing named and making sure your /etc/resolv.conf is properly configured. Also make sure the selected nameserver(s) exist and allow connections. Use `nslookup' to verify. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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