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From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:39:59 -0500
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On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:11 pm, Hauan, David wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jorge Mario G. [mailto:murcielako@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:21 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems
> >
> >
> > Hi there
> > I`ve been experiencing resolving problems with freebsd
> > 5.2.1-release-p9
> >
> > the problem is this: I CAN NOT RESOLV
> > my hosts file is ok
> > looks like this in the gateway
> >
> > #####################################
> > 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.
> >
> > the resolv.conf is not the problem because is working
> > for linux in the same box and some other windows
> > machines.
> >
> > FreeBSD (the gateway and laptop) can ping to the
> > outside world Some times but very rarely
> >
> > I can not figure out what can be the problem
> >
> > when I run tcpdump on the latop I see it tries to
> > resolv DNS but it cant
> >
> > somthing like this
> > icmp echo request freebsd.org (my DNS servers) here
> > then it tries freebsd.foodamain.org
> >
> > then after like 2 mins I get
> >
> > coulnt lookup host
> > or something like that
> >
> > please any help would be apreciated this is driving me nuts
> >
> > =====
>
> Can you ping outside IP addresses from this machine?
>
> dave

What are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf?

Andrew Gould