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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:29:39 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
To:        dai@xuma.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with DHCP
Message-ID:  <395C4C63.55EC86F1@gorean.org>
References:  <395C016D.8EA23A58@xuma.com>

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David Ai wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble pinging my hostname using DHCP.  I can access the
> network and the outside world but when I try 'ping foo.bar.com' it gives
> me a the following message 'ping: cannot resolve foo.bar.com: Unknown
> host'.  I'm using v4.0 stable.  Any help would be appreciated. TIA.

	Make sure that you are requesting the nameservers in your conf file,
and that they are getting recorded in your /etc/resolv.conf file.

Good luck,

Doug
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