From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 21:58:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA04594 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 21:58:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA04568 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 21:58:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA24001; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:27:52 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA17480; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:27:51 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980106162751.08017@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:27:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: jspringr@futuris.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: resolv.conf References: <34B1AD70.FE2@futuris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <34B1AD70.FE2@futuris.net>; from Jeffrey Springer on Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 11:05:04PM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 11:05:04PM -0500, Jeffrey Springer wrote: > I have networking set up and working correctly with FreeBSD 2.2.5 but > cannot access my providers name service (I can connect to sites on the > internet by specifying "number" addresses rather than "string" > addresses). In previous versions of FreeBSD I put "resolv.conf" in /etc > with these lines: > > nameserver > 207.207.192.8 > 207.207.208.10 Compare with the man page resolv.conf(5). Try changing it to: domain futuris.net nameserver 207.207.192.8 nameserver 207.207.208.10 Of course, you may want to change the name of the domain, say to eclipse.net. Greg