From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 28 06:08:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA2416A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 06:08:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC18843D49 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 06:08:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id i3SD8Pm1009371; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:08:25 +0300 Message-Id: <200404281308.i3SD8Pm1009371@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 28 Apr 04 16:08:26 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 28 Apr 04 16:08:13 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Jason Parker Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:08:12 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <408F1F97.7090600@verizon.net> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Connecting to the internet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:08:29 -0000 Hi! > So, when I install FreeBSD I am asked to browse the package > collection, which I do, and choose the links browser, the lynx > browser, and the bash shell. When I reboot and run either of the > browsers I get a message saying "Host not found." Sounds like DNS is misconfigured on this box. You should have a file /etc/resolv.conf on your system, containing at least this line: nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx where xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP address of your ISP's DNS server. > I also called my ISP and asked for the Host and Domain, which they > told me they don't use, and suggested I leave the space blank, which > sysinstall won't let me do. I do have a domain name but it is > currently hosted on a shared server so I don't believe (?) I should > be entering it here. If you don't have a real registered hostname, you can generally just use a bogus name such as mypc.myhome.lan. It probably wouldn't hurt to register this name in /etc/hosts. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * If all is not lost, where is it?