From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 3 15:07:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA3516A41C for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:07:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aeder@list.ru) Received: from mx3.mail.ru (mx3.mail.ru [194.67.23.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E5043D4C for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:07:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aeder@list.ru) Received: from [85.192.48.50] (port=29041 helo=gateway.my.home) by mx3.mail.ru with esmtp id 1DeDlq-000C8x-00; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:07:38 +0400 Received: from [10.0.1.5] (megagame.my.home [10.0.1.5]) by gateway.my.home (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j53F7b7n028046; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 19:07:37 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from aeder@list.ru) Message-ID: <42A07530.4050409@list.ru> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:20:16 +0400 From: =?UTF-8?B?0JDQu9C10LrRgdCw0L3QtNGAINCU0LXRgNC10LLRj9C90LrQvg==?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xu Qiang References: <20050601025224.4CC8C1D8FE@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com> In-Reply-To: <20050601025224.4CC8C1D8FE@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DNS and Gateway in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 15:07:40 -0000 Xu Qiang wrote: >Hi, all: > >In setting up my FreeBSD machine in my LAN, I only assigned it an ip address and a netmask, just as the handbook said (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html). > >But after that, it can identify the proxy server's name even i didn't give it an explicit DNS server ip address. (It can ping proxy.abc.com) And I found the gateway is also found automatically by the machine. (It is automatically added into the line beginnin with "defaultrouter=") > >Is it designed behavior? I can't understand that. :( > >Regards, >Xu Qiang > > May be, you have dhcp client runned on this machine ? -- Best Regards, Alexander Derevianko