From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 11:35:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11355 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:35:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11300 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:35:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10819; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:35:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:35:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Tim O'Neil" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet Help Req. In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980226223155.00ac1bd0@pop.flash.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Tim O'Neil wrote: > Hi, I'm just plinking along trying to teach myself setting > up a lan in my house, going for a peer to peer 10 base 2 > set up between a 2.2.1 and a win nt box. Ahh, coax :) > /etc/namedb/named.boot I get back "syntax error near > ". *exactly* that? > cache . named.root > primary . localhost > primary 127.in-... IP127 Well, what does named.root look like? That localhost primary line looks fishy, even with the omitteds. Did you run make-localhost? This is what mine looks like: ; $Id: named.boot,v 1.3 1995/03/23 08:43:02 rgrimes Exp $ ; From: @(#)named.boot 5.1 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 ; boot file for secondary name server ; Note that there should be one primary entry for each SOA record. ; example sortlist config: ; sortlist 128.3.0.0 directory /etc/namedb ; type domain source host/file backup file cache . named.root primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA localhost.rev Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message