From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 7 7:56:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sparenix.metronet.com (sparenix.metronet.com [207.170.106.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 394B714D24 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 07:56:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmanley@metronet.com) Received: (qmail 21331 invoked by uid 7770); 7 Nov 1999 16:16:18 -0000 Received: from fcn105-124.tmi.net (HELO win) (207.170.105.124) by sparenix.metronet.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 1999 16:16:18 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19991107094335.0098fb20@mail.metronet.com> X-Sender: jmanley@mail.metronet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 09:44:07 -0600 To: kishan1@home.com, Michael Lucas From: Jim Manley Subject: Re: 3.3-r install problems Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <38246C46.792713F3@home.com> References: <199911061704.MAA38748@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:58 AM 11/6/99 -0800, Kishan Barrett wrote: > > >> The problem here is that the machine is doing exactly what it says, >> and failing. It cannot lookup the host. >> >> Your DNS isn't working. Check the settings, or try different servers. > >i already tried that. i tried using my isp's nameserver, i tried using an >offsite nameserver, and i tried different hosts (ftp.freebsd.org, >ftp2.freebsd.org, etc.) > >any ideas? > Skip the name resolution step and use the ftp server's IP address. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message