Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:55:18 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com> Cc: FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dns problem Message-ID: <20011213235035.O94620-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOIEHLCJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote to FBSD Questions: > I have my first win box on a FBSD LAN. From the win box I can Ping > the FBSD box and a IP address on the internet. But I can not get > Internet Explorer to pull up a internet web page, says not found. > The win box network tcp/ip properties DNS configuration tab I have > Enable DNS on and the host field filled with the FBSD host name > and domain field with FBSD domain name as displayed with the FBSD > hostname command. Any ideas about what knobs I need to turn on to > make this work? It seems as though your connectivity to the outside world is OK, but your Windows box can't resolve hostnames, because it doesn't know who to ask. In the dialog you've mentioned, you'll also have to enter the IP address of at least one domain name server. Assuming you're running bind (DNS) on the FreeBSD box, just list the IP address of the FreeBSD box. Otherwise, use the IP addresses of your ISPs name servers. > Second question: In the IP address tab I could not get win box to > Obtain an IP address automatically. Had to specify the IP address. > Is this normal? Is there a way to tell the Nic card to issue a IP > Address to the win box? Yes, you can enable dhcpd on the FreeBSD server. (Windows uses DHCP to "obtain an IP address automatically". Your FreeBSD server would then pull an address from a pool of (pre-configured) "free" addresses, and tell the Windows machine to use that one. With DHCP, the FreeBSD server can also tell your Windows box what its hostname is, and where to send DNS queries. dhcpd isn't all that hard to set up, but, if you're only supporting one machine at the moment, it is probably more convenient to configure everything statically as you have been doing. > > Thanks -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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