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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:11:27 -0500
From:      "Hauan, David" <david.hauan@fairchild.af.mil>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Jorge Mario G." <murcielako@yahoo.com>
Subject:   RE: sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems
Message-ID:  <59FD5336D1B1FA40AF6DDD241D8DBAC6AC96F2@amcw2ms517.amc.ds.af.mil>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jorge Mario G. [mailto:murcielako@yahoo.com]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:21 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems
>=20
>=20
> Hi there
> I`ve been experiencing resolving problems with freebsd=20
> 5.2.1-release-p9
>=20
> the problem is this: I CAN NOT RESOLV
> my hosts file is ok
> looks like this in the gateway
>=20
> #####################################
> 127.0.0.1  localhost localhost.myfoodamin.org
> 192.168.0.1   a a.foodoamin.org #NIC2
> 192.168.0.2   b b.foodomain.org # WIFI AP
> 192.168.0.254 laptop laptop.foodoamin.org # latop
> ...
> ...
> ######################################
> the laptop (Linux/FreeBSD) has the same hosts file
> and linux can ping to the outside world ALWAYS.
> so can do it the Windows boxes.
>=20
> the resolv.conf is not the problem because is working
> for linux in the same box and some other windows
> machines.
>=20
> FreeBSD (the gateway and laptop) can ping to the
> outside world Some times but very rarely
>=20
> I can not figure out what can be the problem
>=20
> when I run tcpdump on the latop I see it tries to
> resolv DNS but it cant
>=20
> somthing like this
> icmp echo request freebsd.org (my DNS servers) here
> then it tries freebsd.foodamain.org
>=20
> then after like 2 mins I get
>=20
> coulnt lookup host=20
> or something like that
>=20
> please any help would be apreciated this is driving me nuts
>=20
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

Can you ping outside IP addresses from this machine?

dave



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