From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 28 23:53:32 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFBB616A418 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:53:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oscartheduck@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB61413C48D for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:53:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oscartheduck@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so910428nzf for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:53:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=e1/WnVYrBc3jr1IQGsLRBnlGupz0q46lsugBXzSoOnw=; b=NEheJLajbIAbGF46zMxveceIIq1JbtNWXvZRhMI1KNfBLwHURUkk5ZarLsPQUUsPN8QdLFAIx1RSaOfq+A0lLOOPJt80gRTETVxLWtcXFHYFwU7xjC0tmrB/heJpBFo14OQcuNsj56Pm4yjzPl8Zuhk1Q0drhil3OEpyFiSWolI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=IFQUAVrXuBKWawXdjnGWjMPI78QfrrvO9347WPb5X/NTePe8Z90uIIu+1L5u5i/yTwfxMkvhFuKx61L+Fmungcf5Bst626HlfPpr8u9rgdiIztR0HaTgaaUJ4UF6XX3Mk6Kk9KL7SHt4XvQ8HoxvKBkbJEJtLUpv5z1GLPVfT1E= Received: by 10.142.231.7 with SMTP id d7mr1174623wfh.1193615611156; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.232.11 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:53:31 -0600 From: James To: jekillen In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: resolver problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:53:33 -0000 On 10/28/07, jekillen wrote: > > Hello: > I am still having resolver problems with my 6.2 system. > It has shown up with trying to install ports from the ftp site. > I discovered that there is no resolv.conf file, so I created one. > The funny thing is if I ping one of my web sites with > www..com ping can't resolve the address. > but if I do ..com it works. That's probably because you're pinging them via the internal address, not the external address. If you've got a little router, it's grabbed the internal names. If not, then this is interesting, but the same fundamental idea would seem to hold. Just for control test purposes I tried from a Mac OSX machine > and was able to ping www..com. I even have > my own DNS servers listed as servers to contact in resolv.conf Okay, did you try setting up the /etc/resolv.conf on the FreeBSD boxes to match the one on the Mac OS X machine? It's also possible it's your route tables. But tell me first if you've got a small home router that you're connecting everything via. To abbreviate this message, I am trying to get ports set up > and working. > This time I tried portsnap fetch and the site indicated as > the source and mirrors could not be found. > Any suggestions, help, advice is appreciated. I am going more > to the existing material, but it obviously cannot anticipate this > sort of problem literally. > Thanks In Advance: > Jeff K > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >