From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 22:42:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (mail2.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 631EA37B4EC for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 22:41:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010203064151.FQFN13648.mail2.rdc1.il.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 22:41:51 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id AAA04472; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:45:46 -0600 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:45:46 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Trevin Chow Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to set DNS server IP? Message-ID: <20010203004546.A4447@home.com> References: <20010203001616.B4296@home.com> <5.0.2.1.2.20010202221858.00ad3010@popserver.sfu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010202221858.00ad3010@popserver.sfu.ca>; from tmchow@sfu.ca on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 10:19:47PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 10:19:47PM -0800, Trevin Chow wrote: > Shouldn't this information be set by DHCP from my freebsd box? > It's getting the gateway IP, so there must be some way of setting it up on > the freebsd box. > > At 12:16 AM 2/3/2001 -0600, Victor R. Cardona wrote: > >I believe that you have to change the name server IP addresses manually. > >I don't know about NT or W2K, but on Win95 and Win98 there will be a tab > >in the TCP/IP properties section that will allow you to configure which > >nameservers you use. Have you entered anything manually in the DNS tab? If so, then perhaps removing it might help. The other thing , and I am not certain about this (it has been a long time since I have had to use Windows), you might try clicking on the "disable DNS" button in the DNS configuration tab. I think that is what the @home people did when they came and setup my Win98 box. HTH, -- Victor R. Cardona GnuPG Key fingerprint = 62B1 7995 A830 432C 74E8 1337 EDDB E682 3C76 7404 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message