From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 9:54:13 2002 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 E0E9137B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:54:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (f121.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.15.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CD843E3B for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:54:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dubbified@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:54:12 -0800 Received: from 131.107.3.72 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:54:12 GMT X-Originating-IP: [131.107.3.72] From: "C KH" To: simon1@simon1.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't connect to DNS servers -- Firewall prob? Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:54:12 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2002 17:54:12.0562 (UTC) FILETIME=[5ADD7B20:01C2803D] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>I added that link to /etc/rc.conf. Is there a way to reload this file >>without rebooting? > >Not AFAIK. You can get the same result by manually loading the route: > >route add default 0.0.0.0 > >where 0.0.0.0 is the SMC router's IP addy. That worked!! I added the route to my SMC router and now DNS traffic is working. However, on startup, it still hands when it tried to initialize the hostname. In order to continue startup I have to hard break it with CTRL+C! _________________________________________________________________ Choose an Internet access plan right for you -- try MSN! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message