Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:44:25 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Seth Burgess <seth@equimax.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internet Connection via Ethernet Can't See External DNS Message-ID: <200311061344.25825.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031106152453.03b69df8@192.168.168.101> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20031106152453.03b69df8@192.168.168.101>
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On Thursday 06 November 2003 01:35 pm, Seth Burgess wrote: > I am installing and configuring FreeBSD 4.8 for the first time. My > internet connection is through a gateway on my peer to peer network. My > internet connection is working because I can contact IP addresses on the > internet. However, I cannot contact addresses requiring DNS. > > I have entered working DNS addresses in my /etc/resolv.conf file like this: > > nameserver 12.162.136.13 > > For some reason my installation is not using the nameservers I have entered > in resolv.conf and is behaving as if no name server is available. > > What have I done wrong? > Sounds like you don't have hosts and bind in host.conf Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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