From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 12:55:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616EF1065677 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 12:55:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gljennjohn@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE588FC1C for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 12:55:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so349519fxm.13 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 05:55:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=S2Hyc61YokJmhEElZCmnPisAyRYYSaEkSh55H93DlWk=; b=VMX9iLIKhPe8HrbAzplrIexBnDz/tuJjFZAjsjOV5t1DpiFangAruoE2VPdy+B6oyT 0NYH1SnZ9beoElP5OujzEW4rhXeRAtiDyCbV+Gabo3y+U55VeuoglUcW7L5smG3MsEbC wc5E9jmfoI8EZIoGUCN42OTgn1I6yEpMgI/xM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uWtCpPXnuiNhgQmLh+bQxTMwxfJG/lDyDGzj9aDftTL3D0nsLsjaqVQ+8HeJZWvKrV BJZgfA4VyUx5ofE4OyaFzi8mHjjoKXqQNzGCnGHUCpaa4vF7j5jlBuNDvXvQMLgDcur8 lT0ew7d6GAYOI6ClnoLF9475wBKqr7kfba9/c= Received: by 10.223.99.78 with SMTP id t14mr2442407fan.85.1274792120761; Tue, 25 May 2010 05:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ernst.jennejohn.org (p578E2D21.dip.t-dialin.net [87.142.45.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g10sm24717635fai.0.2010.05.25.05.55.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 25 May 2010 05:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 14:55:18 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Gerd Truschinski Message-ID: <20100525145518.7dbb6e91@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4BFBC027.8090504@truschinski.de> References: <4BFBC027.8090504@truschinski.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No internet with snapshots X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:55:22 -0000 On Tue, 25 May 2010 14:18:47 +0200 Gerd Truschinski wrote: > I tried to install the latest > FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201005-amd64-bootonly.iso. > FreeBSD is starting, sysinstall is running. > I want to install from ftp.freebsd.org. Therefor I try to set the _Media > Typ_ in the _Options Editor_. > I select the only Network Interface, a nfe, no IP6 but DHCP. I get an IP > address from my Router and then I get a > "Cannot resolv hostname ftp.freebsd.org". > > This seems to happen with older snapshots also. > > What could I do. What information did you need? > Looks like there's no name server, although the router should have passed that info with the other DHCP data. Look whether there's an option to set a name server (I haven't done an install for a long time so I can't remember). If there is you could use 8.8.8.8, which is a Google name server which works quite well (and it's easy to remember). -- Gary Jennejohn