From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 17:30:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A330937B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web12901.mail.yahoo.com (web12901.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4207E43E6A for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk) Message-ID: <20020829003042.9657.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.221.120.113] by web12901.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:30:42 PDT Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:30:42 -0700 (PDT) From: robert Backhaus Subject: Re: Network set up help... To: wbishop@mindspring.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200208281117.56946.wbishop@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Worth Bishop wrote: > - Have created and verified a hostname in my > rc.conf file. > - Have verified the ethernet connection is up and > happy. > - Have created /etc/hosts file with all nodes > identified and IP addresses > assigned in the 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2, ... > series. > - Have pinged localhost and confirmed it is working > as it should. I prefer setting up DNS to running a host file. A hosts file will only give you lookups from the local box, not others, which may be your problem..... > When I ping my FreeBSD box, assigned 192.168.1.1 IP > address in /etc/hosts, it > is identified by the system with the ISP-assigned > dynamic IP address, instead > of 192.168.1.1 and all packets are lost. Is this from an internal box (Maybe a Windows Box), and what is the command you are using - ping freebie or ping 195.168.0.1? how is the hosts file on this windows box? > The instructions in the Pedantic Primer are: "If > the IP address...is not > 192.168.1.1...return to Section 2.4 adn review your > entires in '/etc/hosts'. > Have done this, and the entries are as instructed. > > Can't see any other boxes on my network (have > updated the Windows/hosts files > also for the local IP addresses). > > What have I done wrong? > > Thanks, > > Worth Bishop I hope we can work it out, but I actually have never used a hosts-file setup, I ran Bind on my first machine, groked (To some extent) the zone and config files, and do it on any other machines. I would recommend this to you. Robert Backhaus ===== Robert Backhaus robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk Unless otherwise indicated, All `F's in acronyms shal be deemed to stand for `Forgotten'! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message