Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:26:51 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jim <stapleton.41@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS troubles Message-ID: <87mykaslg4.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20807211830y30acdf5cyacc05161a4268b04@mail.gmail.com> (Jim's message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:30:56 -0400") References: <80f4f2b20807211830y30acdf5cyacc05161a4268b04@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:30:56 -0400, Jim <stapleton.41@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get a machine working, but it can't seem to handle DNS > requests. I've just done a 7.0 install (from CD, usually I use net, > but it wasn't connecting to anything, now I know why). > > I have a machine with two built in NICs on the motheroboard, one using > nfe the other using bge. When I try to connect to anything, I get a > "cannot resolve host error". Both are set up to be static, > 192.168.1.84, and bge is 192.168.1.86. I have tried both "192.168.1.1" > (the router, which points to the ISPs DNS) and "4.2.2.1" in the > /etc/resolve.conf file, each separately, not both at once. The machine > can ping both of these addresses and gets a decent to rapid return > time (~.3ms for the former, <20ms for the latter) Neither works on > this machine. Both work on the other FreeBSD and Windows machines in > the house. I have the machine set to dual boot, and DNS works fine > under Windows. I hope you didn't create a "resolve.conf" file, because it is called "resolv.conf" without a final "e", i.e.: root@kobe:/root# ls -ld /etc/resol* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 35 Jul 22 01:36 /etc/resolv.conf root@kobe:/root#
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