Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 18:15:43 -0500 From: "Frank Griffith" <frankg@idfw.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Can't resolve name - Unknown Host Message-ID: <002701bd9658$06771d80$0200a8c0@fast1.dfw.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I have FreeBSD 2.2.6 running ppp and acting as a gateway for my Windows 95 machines. It all works wonderfully, and I have no problem surfing with the browsers on the Win95 units. But when I want to ping a computer on the Internet, unless I know the IP address, I'm out of luck. For example if I ping 206.66.36.12, I get a reply. But if I ping www.airmail.net, I get the unknown host error message. Can someone tell me how to get the FreeBSD machine to recognize site names, not just addresses? This also is a problem for me when I want to FTP with the FreeBSD unit. I have to go to one of the Win95 units, run CuteFTP, using the domain name, like ftp.freebsd.org, and when the IP address appears I write it down and then use it on my FreeBSD machine. Shouldn't I just be able to enter the domain name on the command line for FreeBSD? [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>I have FreeBSD 2.2.6 running ppp and acting as a gateway for my </DIV> <DIV>Windows 95 machines. It all works wonderfully, and I have no </DIV> <DIV>problem surfing with the browsers on the Win95 units.<BR><BR>But when I want to ping a computer on the Internet, unless I know the </DIV> <DIV>IP address, I'm out of luck. For example if I ping 206.66.36.12, I get a </DIV> <DIV>reply. But if I ping <A href="http://www.airmail.net">www.airmail.net</A>, I get the unknown host error </DIV> <DIV>message. Can someone tell me how to get the FreeBSD machine to </DIV> <DIV>recognize site names, not just addresses? This also is a problem for </DIV> <DIV>me when I want to FTP with the FreeBSD unit. I have to go to one of </DIV> <DIV>the Win95 units, run CuteFTP, using the domain name, like </DIV> <DIV>ftp.freebsd.org, and when the IP address appears I write it down and </DIV> <DIV>then use it on my FreeBSD machine. Shouldn't I just be able to enter </DIV> <DIV>the domain name on the command line for FreeBSD?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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