Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:03:10 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: resolver problems Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20071028185901.0231d7c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <f950d4bfe9ca625b17f6045091a2669f@prodigy.net> References: <f950d4bfe9ca625b17f6045091a2669f@prodigy.net>
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At 06:47 PM 10/28/2007, jekillen wrote:
>Hello:
>I am still having resolver problems with my 6.2 system.
>It has shown up with trying to install ports from the ftp site.
>I discovered that there is no resolv.conf file, so I created one.
>The funny thing is if I ping one of my web sites with
>www.<domainName>.com ping can't resolve the address.
>but if I do <actualHostName>.<domainName>.com it works.
>Just for control test purposes I tried from a Mac OSX machine
>and was able to ping www.<domainName>.com. I even have
>my own DNS servers listed as servers to contact in resolv.conf
>To abbreviate this message, I am trying to get ports set up
>and working.
>This time I tried portsnap fetch and the site indicated as
>the source and mirrors could not be found.
>Any suggestions, help, advice is appreciated. I am going more
>to the existing material, but it obviously cannot anticipate this
>sort of problem literally.
>Thanks In Advance:
>Jeff K
Sounds like a DNS problem. Make sure your /etc/hosts only defines the
hostname for that machine and localhost. Check you have the correct order
of hosts in /etc/resolv.conf, it is read top down. Check your
/etc/nsswitch.conf hosts line which should be:
hosts: files dns
You may by mistake have left an entry in a hosts file, or have your DNS not
forwarding correctly for unknown names.
-Derek
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