Date: 06 Jun 2005 10:51:33 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DNS and Gateway in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <44wtp7a68a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050606014438.DC64A1DE8C@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com> References: <20050606014438.DC64A1DE8C@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com>
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Xu Qiang <Qiang.Xu@fujixerox.com> writes: > ????????? ????????? wrote: > > Xu Qiang wrote: > > > >> Hi, all: > >> > >> In setting up my FreeBSD machine in my LAN, I only assigned it an ip > >> address and a netmask, just as the handbook said > >> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html). > >> > >> But after that, it can identify the proxy server's name even i > >> didn't give it an explicit DNS server ip address. (It can ping > >> proxy.abc.com) And I found the gateway is also found automatically > >> by the machine. (It is automatically added into the line beginnin > >> with "defaultrouter=") > >> > >> Is it designed behavior? I can't understand that. :( > >> > >> Regards, > >> Xu Qiang > >> > >> > > May be, you have dhcp client runned on this machine ? > > > No, I didn't have dhcp installed. :( Yes, you do. A dhcp client is part of the base system.
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