From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 14:25:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25471 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 14:25:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25459 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 14:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA15545; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:22:20 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:22:20 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Chris Browning cc: questions Subject: Re: Rép : Re: newbie PPP question In-Reply-To: <359A7AD1.8F9907DC@netunlimited.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Chris Browning wrote: > > > THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr wrote: > > > have you updated /etc/resolv.conf ? > > The fbsd manual index entry for /etc/resolv.conf refers to the chapter for DNS. I'm > not running DNS and don't plan to. Do I need /etc/resolv.conf. I don't have one at > present. > _You_ don't need to run a DNS, but you do need to reference a DNS; *something* needs to translate the names to numeric numbers. :-) So, yes, you do need to set up resolv.conf. Use the nameservers of your ISP. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen --------------------------------------------------------------------- Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message