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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 17:27:29 +0000
To: Doug Jolley <doug@bigwheel.net>
From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: resolv.conf
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At 17:01 1/16/98 -0800, Doug Jolley wrote:
>I'm trying to get PPP set up on my FreeBSD box.  I've got it
>working except that I have to use IP addresses instead of
>names.  That tells me that I don't have DNS available.  In
>looking at the /etc directory I note that there is no 
>resolv.conf file present.  Should there be; or, am I just

Yes there should be. Yes you should create one.

>supposed to create one?  I'm concerned that not having at
>least a sample resolv.conf file present in /etc may indicate
>that I don't have some package or something that I need
>installed.  Is that the case?  TIA for any input.
>     ... doug

You have everything you need. AFAIK there is no example that comes with the
system. Resolv.conf is pretty straight forward.

e.g.
hostresorder    local bind	
nameserver      128.95.120.2
nameserver      128.95.112.2
nameserver      128.95.120.1
domain  u.washington.edu
search  u.washington.edu washington.edu

See man resolv.conf for better info.

Later,
Jason Wells