From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 13:35:15 2003 Return-Path: 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 4E67016A4CF for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:35:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from tito.overland.net (smtp.alpine.overland.net [63.168.39.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC0F043FF2 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from seth@equimax.com) Received: (qmail 15920 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2003 21:35:12 -0000 Received: from dial205.terlingua.overland.net (HELO FILESERVER) (12.162.139.205) by tito.overland.net with SMTP; 6 Nov 2003 21:35:12 -0000 Received: from 192.168.168.109 [192.168.168.109] by FILESERVER with SMTPBeamer v3.35 ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:34:42 -0600 Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20031106152453.03b69df8@192.168.168.101> X-Sender: seth@192.168.168.101 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:35:04 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Seth Burgess Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Internet Connection via Ethernet Can't See External DNS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:35:15 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:35:15 -0000 I am installing and configuring FreeBSD 4.8 for the first time. My internet connection is through a gateway on my peer to peer network. My internet connection is working because I can contact IP addresses on the internet. However, I cannot contact addresses requiring DNS. I have entered working DNS addresses in my /etc/resolv.conf file like this: nameserver 12.162.136.13 For some reason my installation is not using the nameservers I have entered in resolv.conf and is behaving as if no name server is available. What have I done wrong? Thanks, Seth