From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 19:20:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10602 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 19:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10566 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 19:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id TAA25894; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 19:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 19:23:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Frank Griffith cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't resolve name - Unknown Host In-Reply-To: <002701bd9658$06771d80$0200a8c0@fast1.dfw.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE; BOUNDARY="----=_NextPart_000_0024_01BD962E.1CB61940" Content-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01BD962E.1CB61940 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=iso-8859-1 Content-ID: On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Frank Griffith wrote: > 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 First, please don't send HTML to mailing lists. Second, edit /etc/resolv.conf and tell the system who your name servers are. Format is domain your.isps.domain nameserver 123.123.123.123 nameserver 123.123.123.321 Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01BD962E.1CB61940-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message