From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 21:21:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D829737B424 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 21:21:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4G4LDt25174; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:21:13 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:21:13 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Chris Kay Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Ping Problem Message-ID: <20010516162113.A25068@itouchnz.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chriskay@ideal.net.au on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:07:14PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "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