Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 11:24:13 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> To: Lanny Baron <lannyb@cybertouch.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hostname can't be resolved Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91-heb-2.04.960818111818.3179B-100000@cs.technion.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <3216B2A4.3A99@cybertouch.com>
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On Sun, 18 Aug 1996, Lanny Baron wrote: > Hi and goodday, G'day to you too. > > I recently received FreeBSD from Walnut Creek CDROM. Unfortunateley for > me they forgot to send the manual. CyberTouch is an ISP in Toronto, > Canada. I spent about an hour on Friday speaking to the tech support > department at CDROM.COM and he (Michael) tried very hard to fix the > problem. He suggested that I send this letter to you with regards to the > following problem. > > I have installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 and can even get XWindows running. The > problem is, that somewhere I entered server4.cybertouch.com and this is > what you see when booting up the machine. The rest of the network is > running Windows NT 3.51. If I try to send mail, FTP or anything which is > not local to the machine (206.186.50.133) the machine comes back saying > something like "can't resolve hostname" or "can't connect to .... > > How do I fix it so that I can have this machine (64 megs ram, 4.3 GiG > h/d, 3com ethernet card, ethernet to the Internet) to act as a www > server and a ftp server? If I can get it up to acknowledge that it is > part of the network then people can have shell accounts as well, > CyberTouch will be able to be a mirror for FreeBSD if I am allowed to by > either useing the cdroms in our cdrom server or by ftp to this machine. > I am sure if you (whom ever reads this) goes http://206.186.50.133 you > won't get the response from the machine which is a full BSD operating > machine. NO DOS partion, just fully dedicated to FreeBSD. How do I get > it to be able to use Elm or Pine??? > > Please help me out as I am stuck and can't really afford to sit for > hours on end talking on the phone to California from Toronto, Canada. As > I mentioned before, I am willing to be a mirror for FreeBSD, we are > connected to the Internet via Ethernet to a T-3 and 3 T-1's which make > for an excellent high speed connection. I just need some help as I have > almost no experience with Unix. First, to help you, people would need more information. Did you configure the DNS server? (look in /etc/resolv.conf for that, and use nslookup or dig to debug it). What type of routing do you use (if you want someone from outside your net to see the machine you must have some type of routing, at least a default router entry configured). Check that with netstat -r. You can set a default router by editing /etc/sysconfig. And BTW, you won't get http://your.machine unless you configure and run a web server, which is not on by default. To check the IP configuration use ping instead of a web browser. > > Thankyou ever so much for your time in reading this and the possiblity > of you valuble help. > > Lanny Baron > General Manager, > CyberTouch Communications Inc. > 240 Richmond Street West > Suite 305, > Toronto, Ontario > Canada > M5V 1V6 > www.cybertouch.com >
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