From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 8 15:29:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05782 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:29:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from turing.ukonline.co.uk (turing.ukonline.co.uk [194.6.116.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA05776 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:29:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (lon1-26.ukonline.co.uk [194.6.117.154]) by turing.ukonline.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.10) with SMTP id AAA17727 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 00:30:03 +0100 Message-ID: Priority: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Benn Horton" Date: Tue, 08 Apr 97 23:30:48 PDT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I am having problems connecting to my ISP with FreeBSD 2.1.7. I am using user PPP command to connect through my modem and I do manage to connect without any problems. The IPCP sets my host IP address and defines the peer IP address. I have configures the resolv.conf file with the IP address of the nameserver (which is correct since it works with the Internet Explorer dialer). I have tried using PPP in the dial on demand mode but when I run network commands like ping, ftp the command seems to hang and times out with an error message. The message states that the hostname for the DNS nameserver was not found. I find this strange since the FreeBSD handbook gives instructions to use an IP address rather than a hostname in the resolv.conf file. How can I configuring my networking so that all packets will be routed to my ISP and use the nameserver? Benn Horton.