From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 9 16:30:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC0D16A4CE for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:30:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.metawire.org (openwire.metawire.org [66.101.226.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6AA43D2F for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:30:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryanv@metawire.org) Received: from laptop.puffy (c-66-176-147-72.se.client2.attbi.com [66.176.147.72]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.metawire.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBABF326C3; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:30:06 -0500 (EST) From: ryanv@metawire.org To: Rajiv Krishnamurthy Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:29:48 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <595ad514050108223910b29d9d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <595ad514050108223910b29d9d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501091129.49389.ryanv@metawire.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 16:30:16 -0000 I am no expert by any means, but the problem I was having sounds simular. I had a fresh install on friday, I could get to the web but dns resolutions were incredibly, slow and timing out most of the time. But my box is now working perfectly. #1 you dns nameservers addresses need to be in /etc/resolv.conf this still did not solve my problem but it should. I had to cvsup my /usr/src and rebuild my world and everything works perfectly. I do not know if something changed in the sources but it worked for me. On Sunday 09 January 2005 01:39, Rajiv Krishnamurthy wrote: > gentle people, > apologies if this question should have been posted in the newbies > list, but i saw a similar question in the archives of this mailing > list, which did not quite answer my question. > > i'm trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. i'm installing it on > my desktop. > > the installation has gone on pretty cleanly, i have a linksys > firewall/wireless router behind which i have installed my freeBSD box. > i have good connectivity and am able to ping, telnet to the internet. > > however DNS resolution is a problem. > > the browser does not work and for example > dig www.freebsd.org also does not work. > > if i provide the nameserver,dig @server xxx.xxx.xxx - things are fine. > any ideas. it has to be something really simple. > > during the configuration, when i configured my ethernet port, it cleanly > gets the ip address from the linksys hub and also lists the nameserver > correctly. > > what else do i have to configure ? > > ifconfig > xl0 : flags=8843 mtu 1500 > options=b > inet6 fe80::250:daff:fe8c:dcaa%x10 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 00:50:da:8c:dc:aa > media Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > status:active > plip0: flags=8810 mtu 1500 > lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > inet6 :: 1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > > netstat -nr > Routing tables > > Internet: > Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire > default 192.168.1.1 UGS 0 0 x10 > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 76 lo0 > 192.168.1 link#1 UC 0 0 xl0 > 192.168.1.1 link#1 UHLW 1 0 xl0 > 192.168.1.105 127.0.0.1 UGHS 0 0 lo0 > 192.168.1.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 0 2 xl0 > > /etc/resolve.conf is empty. > /etc/hosts is empty. > > thanks > rajiv. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"