From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 21: 3:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ideal.net.au (ion.ideal.net.au [203.20.241.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A5737B424 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 21:03:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chriskay@ideal.net.au) Received: from alimium (aluminium.staff.ideal.net.au [202.3.35.13]) by mail.ideal.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA43292 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 14:02:43 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from chriskay@ideal.net.au) From: "Chris Kay" To: "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: Ping Problem Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:07:14 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry bout my last email was not very informative. The problem i have got is that i can not ping a hostname. I can only ping a ip address Non-authoritative answer: Name: ns1.telstra.net Address: 139.130.4.5 mib# ping ns1.telstra.net ping: cannot resolve ns1.telstra.net: Resolver Error 0 (no error) mib# ping 139.130.4.5 PING 139.130.4.5 (139.130.4.5): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=234.039 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=188.929 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=343.183 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=234.844 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=255.111 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=5 ttl=242 time=205.824 ms ^C --- 139.130.4.5 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 188.929/243.655/343.183/49.385 ms i am on a lan with internet access. i have the ip of 192.168.0.5 and the gateway as 192.168.0.1 the gateway is a Win2k machine if someone could shed some light on this it would be great Regards Chris Kay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message