From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 22: 1:45 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 DE96737B423 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 22:01:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4G51FF26751; Wed, 16 May 2001 17:01:15 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 17:01:15 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Chris Kay Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Ping Problem Message-ID: <20010516170114.B25351@itouchnz.itouch> References: <065c01c0ddc1$e0629e80$0300a8c0@oracle> 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 02:46:24PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:46:24PM +1000, Chris Kay wrote: > > i am connected to ideal > > i just did a nslookup on ns1.telstra.net to show it was working > defaultrouter="192.168.0.1" is in my rc.conf > > the nameserver is ns1.ideal.net.au > it work to ping a ip but not host > it can nslookup a host and return its ip address > > but for some reason it wont ping a hostname > > seems to be not resolve the hostname as it pings Have the permissions on /etc/resolv.conf been set to 644? -- Jonathan Chen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message