From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 13:11:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A4816A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-out4.xs4all.nl (smtp-out4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F6943D55 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from albi@saynotomicrosoft.org) Received: from moonshine (213-84-107-7.adsl.xs4all.nl [213.84.107.7]) by smtp-out4.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3CKB3CY082029 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:11:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from moonshine.eyfa.org (localhost.eyfa.org [127.0.0.1]) by moonshine (Postfix) with SMTP id 325A57CB for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:11:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:11:05 +0200 From: albi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040412221105.6d4b061a@moonshine.eyfa.org> In-Reply-To: <20040412193755.5715043D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <407AEE0C.8060209@daleco.biz> <20040412193755.5715043D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Newbie help: domain name servers and (inter)networking. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:11:06 -0000 On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:38:03 -0400 "Lisa" wrote: > I do not currently have a /etc/resolve.conf - is it safe for me to > just create that? without a valid /etc/resolv.conf no internet (surfing) is possible (unless you use ip-addresses by heart e.g.) if you want to surf the internet you better fix your /etc/resolv.conf by either adding your ISP's nameservers or running a nameserver yourself