From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 22:21:18 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 569A437B422 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 22:21:15 -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 PAA47596; Wed, 16 May 2001 15:19:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from chriskay@ideal.net.au) From: "Chris Kay" To: "Doug Young" , "Jonathan Chen" Cc: "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: RE: Ping Problem Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:24:28 +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) In-Reply-To: <06a001c0ddc7$4ae3b000$0300a8c0@oracle> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i changed resolv.conf to 644 and it didnt work Regards Chris Kay What I meant was the default permissions for /ertc/resolv.conf are 644 as far as I'm aware. Jonathan's point is correct .... if for some reason the permissions are such that the file can't be read then your FreeBSD system would be incapable of resolving addresses. I'd be surprised if this is the case but stranger things have happened To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message