From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 7 15:31:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA14624 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 15:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from execulink.com (root@mail.execulink.com [207.216.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA14610 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 15:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empey (pc-531.on.rogers.wave.ca [24.112.48.46]) by execulink.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA11371 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:31:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Spooler by empey (Mercury/32 v2.01); 7 Sep 97 18:31:24 -0500 Received: from spooler by integral.on.ca (Mercury/32 v2.01); 7 Sep 97 18:30:46 -0500 From: "David Empey" Organization: Integral Communications To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:30:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: DNS and "local host name" Reply-to: empey@integral.on.ca Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Message-ID: <26F3A33E89@integral.on.ca> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings: I am getting the following error when I try to make DNS enquiries from my system: Can't find servername for address 127.0.0.1: No response from server. I'm running a cache only DNS and am on the net successfully (I can ping using IP numbers). Any help appreciated! ___________________________________________________________ David Empey mailto: empey@integral.on.ca http://www.integral.on.ca/empey/ 604-185 Berkshire Drive, London, Ontario, Canada, N6J 3R6 (519)-474-0296