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On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:16:45AM -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:

[...]
> when i try to ping google.ca i get
> cannot resolve google.ca  :host name lookup failure
> 
> doing an ifconfig i get no inet or subnet just the active status
> 
> my firewall stuff in dmesg looks like this
> 
> IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding 
> enabled, default to deny, logging limited to 100 packets/entry by default
> 
> seems like a firewall problem not getting anything unusual in my 
> /var/log/messages

What's the contents of /etc/resolv.conf? Have you got named running?
What's the output of "ipfw show"? You haven't given us enough
information to help us help you.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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