From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 10 20:45:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3529D37B401 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 20:45:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@ohio.com) Received: from ohio.com (a1-1c148.neo.rr.com [24.93.162.148]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5B3g5s14081 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:42:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B243ECF.C65636ED@ohio.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:45:19 -0400 From: Jim Arnold Reply-To: jim@ohio.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: netscape only works with resolv.conf and not dns Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 this just has me curious... my fbsd box runs a standalone name server, setup w/o a problem as describe in Complete FreeBSD book. to see if it really worked i renamed my resolv.conf to something else. i never bothered to change it back. after upgrading the stock netscape loaded from my initial install of fbsd (4.76) to the 4.77 linux version from the ports, netscape refused to use the dns server. every other app i tried (ping, konqueror, gaim, etc) worked fine wit the dns server. replacing the resolv.conf makes netscape happy but i want to know why this is happening. anyone else have this problem? cheers, jim -- I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE which has been up for 2 days as of 06/09/01 05:00:01 PM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message