From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 23 11:14:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA20962 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 11:14:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA20912 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 11:13:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA00366; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 20:13:29 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199703231913.UAA00366@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: ppp... In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970323123648.0068bc18@mail.airmail.net> from Mikael Cederberg at "Mar 23, 97 12:36:48 pm" To: mceder@airmail.net (Mikael Cederberg) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 20:13:29 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > An easy question.. Where do you edit the file to setup the DNS servers? I > can get connected > with FreeBSD through PPP and use IP's, but not domain names.. Please consult man 5 resolv.conf if you just want to use name server on another machine and man 8 named if you want to run your own name server -- which you probably don't want to do if you don't have a permanent connection to the Internet. Wolfgang