From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 22:59:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E711537BC06 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:59:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA07431; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:58:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38D08631.BA81CB17@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:58:57 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0313 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lance Woodson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proper way to configure networking? References: <38D05DC5.2A3FE129@woodson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lance Woodson wrote: > > My IP address doesn't have DNS associated with it. > > I can ping my gateway but can't ping beyond it. Does this have anything > to do with me not having DNS? No. In all likelihood your gateway is not configured properly. > What should I set my hostname to? Anything that's not a real domain name (assuming from your question that you don't have a real domain). whatever.local is a fairly useful convention... Good luck, Doug -- "While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past" - Jackson Browne, "Fountain of Sorrow" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message