From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 20:24:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts7.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1301937B403 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([64.228.155.124]) by tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010831032121.DXGM3327.tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:21:21 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7V3Edk03656 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:14:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <004e01c131ca$de74b5b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: References: <200108310127.SAA19066@idk.com> Subject: Re: how to specifiy nameserver Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:13:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If I am not running named locally, how do I specify using DSN on my ISP? > > I think that it's in one of the /etc/host* but I do not know which or the > format to add this. Add the line 'nameserver 1.2.3.4' to /etc/resolv.conf, replacing 1.2.3.4 with the IP of your ISP's DNS server. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message