From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 22:43:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls20.mediaone.net (chmls20.mediaone.net [24.147.1.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D9A937B401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:43:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mediaone.net (h002078d665ae.ne.mediaone.net [66.30.93.217]) by chmls20.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1F6ha627080 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:43:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A8B79E6.9FC08A4C@mediaone.net> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:40:38 -0500 From: Sir Reply-To: postroad@mediaone.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: what do I need so FreeBSD submits DNS requests to my ISP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD 4.1 stable on an intel PII. The network config is actualy very well connected. I can do anything by IP address(i.e ping,ftp etc) and I am serving www with apache and ftp with wu. However, the system doesn't seem to know where to direct dns requests. So, if I say "#ftp secureftp.wheriwork.com" it replies "No address associated with hostaname". I looked into "bind" but was put off by the complexity and the possibility of "tweeking" my ISP by accidentaly becoming the name server for a domain I don't own. (although I do own masspostroad.net). Any help greatly appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message