From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 04:02:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA28754 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 04:02:05 -0700 Received: from prades.cesca.es (prades.cesca.es [192.94.163.152]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA28748 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 04:02:01 -0700 Received: by prades.cesca.es (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA13101; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 12:59:04 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 12:50:19 +0200 (METDST) From: Carles Amengual Subject: Re: More TCP/IP To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506291918.MAA02492@ix4.ix.netcom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Jun 1995, William Harrison wrote: > I have worked my way through the netstart script and made two changes: > > defaultrouter=NO I changed to defaultrouter=204.7.184.1 > > name_server=NO I changed to YES > You are right with these settings. > Ping and telnet work with dotted decimal but not with names. > But nslookup works!!! > > I set up named.boot as a caching server. > I downloaded named.ca from internic and set it up. > There are no errors when named is run. > If I ping to one of the names that happens to be in named.ca, I get the > translation to dotted decimal but > If I telnet or ping to a name that must be translated by a remote name > server I get unknown host. > > I set up resolv.conf but it didn't help > Do you mean that nslookup gives the translation but ping or telnet cannot get it ? This is somewhat strange. I cannot help much more as I have no nameserver in my FreeBSD box, but I suggest that you confirm this and debug further (maybe dig would be better than nslookup). Carlos