From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 00:20:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA26608 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA26599 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:20:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA08474; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:14:50 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA28954; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:28:15 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199607300728.JAA28954@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: IP connection To: caweiten@mtu.edu (Christian Weitenberner) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:28:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607292016.QAA15946@kirchhoff1.ee.mtu.edu> from Christian Weitenberner at "Jul 29, 96 04:16:50 pm" Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (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 > Here's the problem ... > I have the correct address's for the Gateway, Name Server, and my server > set up. However I can not telnet from my machine or telnet to my machine. > When I try to telnet it says "Host name lookup failure" and quits the process. > Any idea how to get me "online"? > > Can you ping to other hosts inside and outside your network by IP address? Have you edited /etc/resolv.conf? This happens normally during installation automatically. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de