From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 18:25:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA08711 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:25:37 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA08704 ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:25:27 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA16820; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:30:07 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510200200.LAA16820@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: BIND To: jgruber@jgruber2.inhouse.compuserve.com Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:30:06 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-admin@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510191529.LAA01325@jgruber2.inhouse.compuserve.com> from "jgruber@jgruber2.inhouse.compuserve.com" at Oct 19, 95 11:29:19 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 829 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk jgruber@jgruber2.inhouse.compuserve.com stands accused of saying: > > I have installed FreeBSD 2.0 and have a problem talking to my DNS. The DNS is > fine. The local host file works fine, and I have created a resolv.conf file > in /etc. I'm not a DNS so I'm not loading NAMED. Any ideas? Yeah, you haven't got it right. Without some idea of _what_ you have in /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/host.conf, there's no way anyone can help you. > John -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[