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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:29:49 -0500
From:      "Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar" <ramkumar@iastate.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.
Subject:   Network configuration in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <7c7927920801281329n609abb8ah63a18f1afb56099d@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi,

I'm a newbie FreeBSD user, I've just installed the 5.5 version.
I know this is a very silly question but I've searched the archives and any
suggestions are welcome.

I think my system is not connected to the internet or any external network,
ping dosent work ( nor ftp or dig)

When I try to do a post-install configuration and choose to enable the inetd
daemon option from the sysinstall, it doesnt invoke the editor to change the
inetd.conf at all, so I did a root-login and enabled ftp, even pftp and
other services in the file as mentioned in the installation document.

But still I'm unable to ftp to any server, the message I get is ftp:
hostname or servname not known or not provided.

Do you guys have any ideas ?

Thanks
Bhuvana



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