From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 29 00:03:46 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 C401C16A417 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F3913C480 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9T03R7i051519; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:03:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20071028185901.0231d7c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:03:10 -0500 To: jekillen , FreeBSD Mailing List From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: 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: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:46 -0000 At 06:47 PM 10/28/2007, 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. >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 >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 Sounds like a DNS problem. Make sure your /etc/hosts only defines the hostname for that machine and localhost. Check you have the correct order of hosts in /etc/resolv.conf, it is read top down. Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts line which should be: hosts: files dns You may by mistake have left an entry in a hosts file, or have your DNS not forwarding correctly for unknown names. -Derek >_______________________________________________ >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" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.