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Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:09:00PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote:

> strangely my /etc has no resolv.conf file at all !

It will only have one if you make one by setting up networking.
sysinstall makes one if you set up a static IP.  I think DHCP makes
it if you do dynamic, but I don't have much experience with DHCP.

////jerry