From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 21:46:59 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA18079 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 21:46:59 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA18065 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 21:46:57 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.15) via UUCP id AA17747 ; Thu, 20 Jul 95 00:45:54 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sYnRJ-0004pHC; Thu, 20 Jul 95 00:42 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: basic no network setup question To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 00:42:25 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <199507180121.KAA04531@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 18, 95 10:51:38 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 875 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith wrote: > resolv.conf is described in the 'resolver' manual page; it points to > local nameservers. No, what you did with /etc/host.conf is correct, with > a hosttable-only configuration like yours you don't want to try looking > for a nameserver. Okay, I bought Nemeth, the red book, and a light is slowly starting to shine. :) As I read things so far, *if* I had a /etc/resolv.conf it should be empty? > One of the most trying things with a BSD unix is getting it to be happy > without a network 8) Would *BSD be happier without a NIC card at all, or with one that was not connected to anyone else? Or equally unhappy either way? ;) -- Jan Isley Nothing is permanent. Everything Changes. jan@bagend.atl.ga.us That's the one thing we know for sure in this world. But I'm still going to gripe about it. -- Calvin