From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 05:21:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA22843 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 05:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com (uswgco2.uswest.com [206.196.133.74]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA22838 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 05:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id GAA16852; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 06:20:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com(151.116.23.138) by uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com via smap (V1.3) id sma016838; Thu Jun 6 06:20:07 1996 Received: from easthub (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id GAA28431; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 06:20:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Received: from astro.acs.uswest.com by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA22862; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 07:20:04 -0500 Received: by astro.acs.uswest.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA11023; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 07:20:01 -0500 From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Message-Id: <199606061220.HAA11023@astro.acs.uswest.com> Subject: Re: nameserver resolution To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 07:20:00 -0500 (CDT) Cc: randyd@nconnect.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606052237.WAA17326@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Jun 5, 96 04:37:57 pm X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Sean Kelly said: > > >>>>> "Randy" == Randy DuCharme writes: > > Randy> How do I > Randy> get DNS resolution to work?? > > Your ISP should have given you the IP addresses of at least one if not > two DNS servers. Put those address in your /etc/resolv.conf file > along with your domain name: > > domain my.domain > nameserver w.x.y.z > nameserver m.n.o.p Then put the line: bind in the /etc/host.conf file. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com "Remember now, remember, more bowling." - Richard M. Nixon