Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:46:26 -0500 From: "chris" <chris@susi.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Question on FreeBSD name resolution Message-ID: <019601c3831f$fa743350$0100000a@red>
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I just installed 5.1 and have been playing around with it, but I am troubled by an issue with my network configuration. I apologize if this is the wrong list, it seemed to be the most appropriate. I want to at least get the machine working so then I can start working through learning the ins and outs. My FreeBSD box is running on a Dell laptop on my home network where I have three other Windows based machines. All of my machines are configured to use another NT-Based firewall as both the default gateway and DNS server, which is connected out to the Internet via cable. I’m using the default network settings that were configured when I installed the system. The network card is configured to use DHCP and when I do an ifconfig I see the Ethernet card has an appropriately assigned IP address & netmask. If I ping a website by it’s DNS name, the name resolves quickly and I get ping responses back pretty quickly (as I would expect). When I use FTP, Telnet, or WWW to try to connect to an address by FQDN, it takes a few minutes to establish the connection. However when I use the associated IP address instead of the FQDN it connects instantly. It seems like the TCP (or at least FTP, WWW & Telnet) programs are having an issue with resolving the name. My guess is that they are timing out through trying to resolve via one means, and therefore then try a DNS resolve. Is there a way to determine the order in which the system currently does name resolution? I looked for the host.conf file in my /etc folder and there was one, but even when I added one in it didn’t help.
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