From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 21 5:56:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB5115385 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 05:56:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from localhost.hell.gr (patr530-a095.otenet.gr [195.167.115.95]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA16212 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:56:24 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 5492 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Dec 1999 12:08:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:08:37 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mike Dungan Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: resolving problems. Message-ID: <19991221140837.D728@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 09:24:07PM -0500, Mike Dungan wrote: | Hello, | | I am setting up a majordomo server, using FreeBSD 3.0-R, and while I am | able to connect to the internet, I am not able to resolve hostnames in | most cases. nslookup and dnsquery work fine, but other programs like ping | or traceroute will fail the host lookup. My /etc/resolv.conf is a copy of | a known good file, so I don't see that as the problem. This is a clean | 3.0-R install. It's hard to tell what the problem is without your resolv.conf file. A copy of /etc/host.conf would be of great assistance too ;) Oh, and if that's not a big problem to you, please send the exact incantations of commands that have failed you (i.e. traceroute, ping) and their successful counterparts (i.e. nslookup). Regards, -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message