From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jan 29 17:57:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A7AA14E8E for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:57:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA05138 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:57:36 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA56460; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:57:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:57:05 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: resolving DNS in osf1 Netscape? In-Reply-To: <20000129074515.7496.qmail@web2002.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20000129074515.7496.qmail@web2002.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14483.39312.815443.761824@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org GReg meno writes: > managed to get netscape installed but it can't resolve > DNS > anyone know why ? For future reference: Don't have an empty search line in /etc/resolv.conf, remove it or give it a domain name list to search. Also, be very careful of excess whitespace & blank lines. I don't think the OSF/1 resolver library is a featureful as ours. Greg's problem was apparently an empty "search" line. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message