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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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