Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:24:53 -0500 From: "Chad Gross" <avatar4d@gmail.com> To: "linux quest" <linuxquest7570@yahoo.com> Cc: question@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internet Connection Problem - DNS Related? Message-ID: <17489c7a0612200624q745ac476k223f007289ad1770@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <686726.76953.qm@web59213.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <686726.76953.qm@web59213.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On 12/20/06, linux quest <linuxquest7570@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I am a new user of FreeBSD. I have already installed FreeBSD succesfully. > However, I am not able to connect to the Internet. I have read the ppp > manual in FreeBSD (by typing man ppp), but I still can't connect to the > Internet. > > This is what happened at my prompt ... > > abc# ping google.com > ping: cannot resolve google.com: Host name lookup failure > > Then, I thought perhaps I haven't configure my DNS. So I typed man dns, > but I can't find the DNS manual, and yes... I know my ISP DNS IP address. > But I don't know where to configure it in FreeBSD. man resolve.conf
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