From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 8 02:45:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06207 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 02:45:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.aloha.com (root@leahi.aloha.com [206.127.224.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA06202 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 02:45:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: from 209.84.67.32 (behemoth1-30.pixi.net [209.84.67.32]) by mail.aloha.com (8.8.7/8.8.7/PIXI-5.2) with SMTP id AAA09518; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 00:44:41 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <34DD8C89.26A9@aloha.com> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 00:44:25 -1000 From: Gary Dunn Reply-To: knowtree@aloha.com Organization: Knowledge Tree X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dolbecm@webspan.net CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd setup References: <34DC66EB.1DA7@webspan.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mario Dolbec wrote: > > My FreeBSD machine is working perfectly as a router to the net. I can > ftp from my win95 through the FreeBSD box to the net but I can't ftp or > telnet or anything else from the actual FreeBSD box to the net out. I > keep getting Unknown Host. > So I'm missing something simple right?! > Mario Sounds like your win95 box is correctly configured for a Domain Name Server (DNS) while the FreeBSD box is not. If this is true you should be able to ping systems by IP address but not by name. -- Gary Dunn Knowledge Tree Honolulu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message