Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:21:13 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Chris Kay <chriskay@ideal.net.au> Cc: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ping Problem Message-ID: <20010516162113.A25068@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <NFBBIOAAGLEAJEAKGMDHIEJPCAAA.chriskay@ideal.net.au>; from chriskay@ideal.net.au on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:07:14PM %2B1000 References: <NFBBIOAAGLEAJEAKGMDHIEJPCAAA.chriskay@ideal.net.au>
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On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:07:14PM +1000, Chris Kay wrote:
>
> Sorry bout my last email was not very informative.
>
> The problem i have got is that i can not ping a hostname.
> I can only ping a ip address
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name: ns1.telstra.net
> Address: 139.130.4.5
>
> mib# ping ns1.telstra.net
> ping: cannot resolve ns1.telstra.net: Resolver Error 0 (no error)
>
> mib# ping 139.130.4.5
> PING 139.130.4.5 (139.130.4.5): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=234.039 ms
Looks like your DNS isn't working properly. Have you got the correct
nameserver info in /etc/resolv.conf?
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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