From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 22: 4:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77EC237B423 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 22:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle ([192.168.0.3]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA60852; Wed, 16 May 2001 15:02:55 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <066401c0ddc5$a15434c0$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Chris Kay" , "Freebsd-Questions" References: Subject: Re: Ping Problem Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:04:04 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > i am connected to ideal > > i just did a nslookup on ns1.telstra.net to show it was working > defaultrouter="192.168.0.1" is in my rc.conf > > the nameserver is ns1.ideal.net.au > it work to ping a ip but not host > it can nslookup a host and return its ip address > > but for some reason it wont ping a hostname OK .... Tel$tra has been known to do the weirdest things with IP addresses / routing / whatever so I wouldn't take anything they did too seriously. If as you suggest everything is working fine on your W2K gateway & other LAN machines the problem is probably in the FreeBSD system. I'm no routing guru, but I've generally been able to muddle through issues like yours with a bit of messing around. What I'd do next is to add at least a second nameserver (and more if you know of them) to rc.conf, and edit your /etc/hosts file so it includes entries for the nameservers. Actually its probably a good thing to configure hosts files on all your LAN machines. There is a default one in Windows too (C:\Windows\hosts.sam). Just be careful to save it with no extension or it won't be read. The Microsoft ICS has been known to have its share of "features" that provide the odd headache too ... eg I've had no end of problems with two or more ICS machines on the same LAN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message