Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 11:32:49 -0400 From: Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net> To: THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr Cc: questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Rép : newbie PPP question Message-ID: <359BA820.84049B7C@netunlimited.net> References: <H000057c016ad3b1@MHS>
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1) OK, that makes sense. I went through the chapter on DNS and it seems that what I want in resolv.conf is: malachi 127.0.0.1 #my machine ns.netunlimited.net 208.128.132.1 #my ISP's nameserver #1 ns2.netunlimited.net 208.128.132.2 #my ISP's nameserver #2 Yes? No? Leave off the domain suffix? Anything else? Does the system ever write to this file? 2) Yes, I can elaborate. As I said, I run ppp and log in with userid and password (manually, I'm still working on the script...later). My ppp prompt changes from 'ppp' to 'PPP'. Now I can't issue anything but ppp commands here, so I alt-f2 to another console and invoke lynx. Lynx seems to hunt for the lynx home URL (I don't recall it exactly) and I get an error msg 'lynx.?????.edu not found' and it exits. In XWindows I open an xterm and run ppp from there, going through the same process as on the console. I open netscape and get an error window with 'home.netscape.com not found'. If I enter a URL and hit 'go' I get nothing. Running lynx in an xterm gives the same result as the console. I can ping from an xterm. I know I'm missing something really stoopid here, but I'm clueless. I do appreciate all your help. Also, another dumb question. Should I be able to ping names as well as numeric? I can't. Does this relate to 1) above? THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr wrote: > Hello, > > even if you don't run a DNS **server** (named / BIND), you sould > definitely use resolv.conf to map symbolic addresses (ftp.cdrom.com) > to 32 bit IP addresses. > > Could you be more elaborate on "I can't get netscape or lynx to work" > > TfH > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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