From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 23:31:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA24649 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 23:31:06 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA24642 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 23:31:02 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA10206; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 16:16:21 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507200646.QAA10206@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: basic no network setup question To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 16:16:20 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jan Isley" at Jul 20, 95 00:42:25 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1535 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jan Isley stands accused of saying: > > 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? resolv.conf should only be consulted if there is a "bind" line in hosts.conf; but yes, you're right on the mark there. > > 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? ;) It's generally happy if there's a network interface of some sort; the parallel-port network interface is sometimes enough, but definitely with in preference to without. It doesn't have to be up, just configured; even a SLIP interface will do. (just mark it as down). > Jan Isley Nothing is permanent. Everything Changes. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[