From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 2 09:07:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18697 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:07:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (ns.rfs.tm.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18658 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:06:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr) From: THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP.9.9.9) with ESMTP id SAA21788; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 18:11:31 +0200 Received: from aifhs1.alcatel.fr (aifhs1.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.86]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id SAA05605; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 18:00:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aifhs1.alcatel.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24772; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 18:03:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id RAA05172; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:59:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA02959; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 18:01:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14894; Thu, 2 Jul 98 17:50:50 +0200 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA188254334; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:45:34 +0200 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 98 17:45:20 +0200 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <359BA820.84049B7C@netunlimited.net> Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9p_:_Re:_R*p_:_newbie_PPP_question?= Mime-Version: 1.0 To: brownicm@netunlimited.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; name="Re:" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re:" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA18672 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG just set these two lines in resolv.conf : 208.128.132.1 208.128.132.1 no names in it !!! this file tells the TCP/IP stack where to look when it wants to translate a name into an IP address / if you put names there's a chicken-and-egg problem .... TfH PS after that, you'll be able to ping ftp.netscape.com ... le bonheur !!! ____________________________ Séparateur Réponse ________________________________ Objet : Re: R*p : newbie PPP question Auteur : brownicm@netunlimited.net Date : 02/07/98 17:32 1) OK, that makes sense. I went through the chapter on DNS and it seems that wha t 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 passwor d (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 exit s. In XWindows I open an xterm and run ppp from there, going through the same proce ss as on the console. I open netscape and get an error window with 'home.netscape.c om not found'. If I enter a URL and hit 'go' I get nothing. Running lynx in an xter m gives the same result as the console. I can ping from an xterm. I know I'm missi ng 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