From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 18 13:02:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA09803 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 May 1997 13:02:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jocki.domestic.de (kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de [194.233.216.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA09794 for ; Sun, 18 May 1997 13:02:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joki@localhost) by jocki.domestic.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA00382; Sun, 18 May 1997 20:02:06 GMT Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199705181448.QAA21631@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 19:55:22 -0000 (GMT) From: Joachim Kuebart To: Wolfgang Helbig Subject: Re: resolveing host name Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, flame@access.kuwait.net Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 18-May-97 at 14:48:55 Wolfgang Helbig wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> Was finaly able to establish a PPP connection but having 1 small >> problem. I can't connect using lynx i get msg can't resolve host. and >> when i try to telnet viper.hardlink.com i get msg failure to resolve >> host. Any ideas? >> sys: FreeBSD 2.2.1 >> >> >> Hosts: >> 127.0.0.1 localhost >> 10.0.0.1 prime.keifan.net prime >> 194.54.234.234 access.kuwait.net access >> >> host.conf: >> hosts >> bind >> multi on >> >> resolve.conf: >> nameserver 194.54.234.234 > >Does a >$ ping access >give you any replies from the nameserver? > >Wolfgang Also, make sure "resolve.conf" is called correctly, namely "resolv.conf" cu Jo --------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD - top breeders recommend it Joachim Kuebart Tel: +49 711 653706 Germany