From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 14:03:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA05589 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:03:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from parody.tecc.co.uk (parody.tecc.co.uk [193.128.6.83]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA05527 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:02:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by parody.tecc.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00958; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 23:37:16 GMT Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 23:37:15 +0000 () From: James Raynard To: Gary Kline cc: Ulf Zimmermann , kline@tera.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arrrgh, this was working Sunday... In-Reply-To: <9601040106.AA00652@tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > This was my first thought. I *had* the following > in /etc/resolv.conf: > > # > # resolv.conf :: created on 18dec95 > # > domain thought.org > # > nameserver 158.152.1.193 > nameserver 158.152.1.65 Two thoughts:- 1. The 'domain' entry should contain your local domain name. This is thought.org, but you're posting from tera.com. If you're posting from a different machine, it doesn't matter, if not you should change it. 2. The nameservers you're using are actually in England (try doing 'traceroute 158.152.1.193' and 'nslookup 158.152.1.193' if you don't believe me). As you seem to be in Washington State, I'm not surprised you're getting poor throughput to them 8-) I'd recommend you ask whoever you're connecting to what nameserver they recommend using. With any luck, they should say "use our nameserver, it's IP address is x.x.x.x". If they don't understand what you're talking about, find someone who does! Also, to get a better background on what's going on, do 'man 5 resolver' (unfortunately, this gets off to a rather confusing start by assuming that "a normally configured system" runs a nameserver). Good luck James Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'