From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 8 20:04:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA23586 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 20:04:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA23554 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 20:03:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA276200881640216; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:03:36 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id RAA00767; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:03:36 +1300 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09608; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:47:37 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA01526; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:47:37 +1300 (NZDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:47:36 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Oleg Ogurok cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to access to ftp servers using ppp program? In-Reply-To: <19971209025959.3918.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Oleg Ogurok wrote: > But when I trying to using ftp program to > access to ftp servers ( for example for ftp.freebsd.org for download all > package of FreeBSD ), the ftp program after typing: open > ftp.freebsd.org, tell me: Unknown host. So, I can't access to any > server. Have you modified /etc/resolv.conf to point to your ISP's nameserver to resolve domain-names? eg: nameserver WW.XX.YY.ZZ where WW.XX.YY.ZZ is the IP-address of your ISP's nameserver. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards