From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 5: 1:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D19737BE1C for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 05:01:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp3.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.18]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA00749; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:00:05 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA09013; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:40:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:40:49 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Richard H <rhzdnet@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trouble setting up DNS in 3.3 (had DNS working in 2.2) Message-ID: <20000329134049.B7782@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <20000328102537.12480.qmail@web308.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000328102537.12480.qmail@web308.mail.yahoo.com>; from rhzdnet@yahoo.com on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:25:37AM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:25:37AM -0800, Richard H wrote: > > My 3.3 system is the server that connects by modem to my ISP with a > dynamic IP and uses PPP to interface to it. My routing works, since > all of my systems can ftp, browse, etc. the internet. I can ping any > system on my net or those outside of my net but I suspect this is > because of the hosts files. > -----resolv.conf > nameserver mercury.planets.net > domain planets.net Try replacing mercury.planets.net with the IP address of mercury. You should have a line of: nameserver 192.168.1.1 When your machine reads resolv.conf it wants to find the address of a nameserver. If it finds a name, it has to contact a nameserver to resolve the name. But to resolve the name, it has to read resolv.conf and this is getting us into a loop, isn't it? Ciao, -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr> See the headers of this message for my public key fingeprint. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message