Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 19:36:16 -0600 From: "Ryan Thompson [LAM]" <listaccount@home.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ISP DNS problems -- routing/dynamic assigns Message-ID: <36688E10.6200B36@home.com>
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Hi everybody I have recently downloaded and installed 2.2.8-RELEASE. I am not new to FreeBSD by any means; however, I obviously don't know everything yet :) This will likely be a long winded message with some unnecessary information that might be entertaining to read :) In a previous install (with the same 'net connection and much of the same hardware), I WAS somehow able to configure FreeBSD 2.2.6, 2.2.7 (and, for a time, 3.0) in such a way that everything (including outgoing DNS queries) worked perfectly. The only hardware that has changed is the replacement of my NIC :) I was forced to put in an ISA network card to free up a PCI slot in favour of a specialized interface card (NOT used/detected/assigned any resources in FreeBSD). This new hardware setup is working fine with Microsoft OSes (uhh.. right.. Sorry, I forgot. This is a "G" rated mailing list, and, as such... I will attempt to refrain from further use of profanity :).. The network card I have added is an ISA 3Com 3c509b-TPO Etherlink III 10BaseT adapter (as opposed to a slightly older PCI Etherlink XL). (dmesg reports that the card was found at the IRQ/port locations I specified in kernel config. Further, (thanks to an entry in /etc/rc.conf), default routing is set up through my ISP's gateway and everything appears to report correctly on bootup, and inetd starts up fine. The connection appears to work properly... I am at least able to ping remote IP addresses. I suspect services on other ports work as well, but I haven't explicitly tested this. I can NOT perform any DNS queries (read: that's my freakin' problem :). (Including whois and ping). ping reports the generic error to the effect of "whoever.com: host is unreachable". In other configurations (i.e. WINDOWS :) all addresses beyond my hostname are dynamically assigned by my ISP through Microsoft login (maybe proprietary?). (i.e. DNS, gateway, IP). DOS's IPCONFIG reports all of these dynamic values. All I must to in 95 is set my machine name to the hostname my ISP assigned me. My ISP uses ONLY TCP/IP, and I do not need to configure ANYTHING the TCP/IP config there (I do not even need to enter my host/domain name in DNS, nor enter the (ever-changing) IP addresses of any DNS servers). WHAT I'VE DONE: In rc.conf: I set hostname to my fully-qualified location (i.e. hostname.fully.qualified.domain), as given to me by my ISP. I also set my routing path to the IP address of my ISPs gateway (in rc.conf again) In rc.conf, I also added an adapter alias for (as memory serves) ep0, with my current IP and a reasonable netmask. ep0 is also in the network adapters line (along with lo0, the loopback device). Lastly, in host.conf, it is set to look in the hosts file first, then try bind, then NIS. (Out-of-the-box setup). In /etc/hosts, after the default 127.0.0.1 localhost entry, I attached my current IP to my host.domain address (which I have a feeling I should NOT have to do if DNS is functioning correctly). In addition, I've tried playing around with many other settings and values in rc.conf, host.conf and hosts. inetd.conf didn't seem to offer much help, nor did any man page I looked up. SO... Is there a way to configure FreeBSD in such a way as to connect to my ISP and have virtually EVERYTHING be assigned dynamically? Or is FreeBSD more strict, requiring explicit values for these things? (And, if so, where DO I specify the location of the remote DNS host(s)?!) Any help is, of course, muchly appreciated. I am now going to the bar to further meditate on this matter. - Ryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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