From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 10:45: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stephens.ittc.ukans.edu (stephens.ittc.ukans.edu [129.237.125.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D7714C7F for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:43:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bkyoung@chef.ittc.ukans.edu) Received: from chef.ittc.ukans.edu (chef.ittc.ukans.edu [129.237.125.112]) by stephens.ittc.ukans.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/ITTC-NOSPAM-1.0) with ESMTP id MAA04692 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:43:12 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200001311843.MAA04692@stephens.ittc.ukans.edu> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:43:10 -0600 (CST) From: bkyoung@falcon.cc.ukans.edu Reply-To: "Brandon (Falcon)" Subject: Re: DCHP in FBSD 3.4 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you for your response...many people have pointed out that my e-mailer sucks...Microsoft...:-) [is this one better? (postilion in RedHat linux)]. To refresh memories on the problem (in a nutshell): I can't see the internet through my ISP. I can see servers at my ISP, but not anything on the internet. This is precisely what I tried: 1) Noticed I couldn't FTP into ftp.freebsd.org. 2) using /stand/sysinstall I look at my ethernet configuration. What I've noticed is (and I don't know how (in)significant this is...) that the information is totally different than my configuration in windows. For example my IP address in Windows would be 24.124.43.189 [for one whole week] {it would be the same if I was running linux}, BUT in FreeBSD it's wacked...like: 10.201.xxx.xxx ????????????. The NetMask is different, the default gateway is different...sometimes the Name Server IP is the same - and I have no way of knowing if it's actually talking to the DHCP server (I can ping it though). This is at home. 3) At work, I can connect thru the DHCP server (in FreeBSD) to the internet. Everything works fine. That proves it's not something wrong with dhclient (which has been suggested to me). There is obviously something wrong with my configuration at home...but what? I am using IP addresses to ping things at my ISP. The IP of my machine at work is 129.237.125.112 - which I can't ping from home through FreeBSD. I also try things like www.yahoo.com - which also doesn't work. what specifically about the DNS configuration would cause this problem & how can I correct it? Brandon K Young bkyoung@sunflower.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message