Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 16:21:13 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        Chris Kay <chriskay@ideal.net.au>
Cc:        Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ping Problem
Message-ID:  <20010516162113.A25068@itouchnz.itouch>
In-Reply-To: <NFBBIOAAGLEAJEAKGMDHIEJPCAAA.chriskay@ideal.net.au>; from chriskay@ideal.net.au on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:07:14PM %2B1000
References:  <NFBBIOAAGLEAJEAKGMDHIEJPCAAA.chriskay@ideal.net.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:07:14PM +1000, Chris Kay wrote:
> 
> 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

Looks like your DNS isn't working properly. Have you got the correct
nameserver info in /etc/resolv.conf?
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
                   "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny"
                                                         - Kin Hubbard

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010516162113.A25068>