Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 09:01:19 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: D B Dews <d.b.dews@camel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new and dumb 2 Message-ID: <325526BF.5D3C@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <32551BE2.435F@camel.com>
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D B Dews wrote: > Thanks to all for your help with previous question. I found > /etc/sysconfig, and learned vi sufficiently to edit it a bit, You may find that "ee" is about twenty times easier to use than "vi". Try it. > but where > in this file do I place the DNS (as called in DOS/NT land, don't know > what you call it.) The domain name server IP address? We call it DNS too. And sometimes BIND. And sometimes named. And sometimes "the resolver." And sometimes a real pain in the .... :-) But anyway, you set up DNS in the file /etc/resolv.conf. Your file should contain your DNS domain name after the "domain" keyword, and the IP addresses of one or more name servers after each "nameserver" keyword. For example: domain camel.com nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 1.2.3.5 > defaultdomainname=camel.com [my domain name] This is actually the NIS domain name, not the DNS domain name. You can set it back to NO. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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