From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 22:45: 7 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 9870E37B422 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 22:45:02 -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 PAA61111; Wed, 16 May 2001 15:43:37 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <075001c0ddcb$5136f670$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Chris Kay" , "Jonathan Chen" Cc: "Freebsd-Questions" References: Subject: Re: Ping Problem Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:44:46 +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 changed resolv.conf to 644 and it didnt work > I'm not surprised ..... good thought from Jonathan though OK .... add at least the second nameserver to resolv.conf, then configure the /etc/hosts file (FreeBSD) & the C:\Windows\hosts files so they know about all LAN machines & critical external ones like the nameservers. You'll need to hold down the "shift" key in the Windows systems to rename the default hosts.sam file to have no extension To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message