From owner-freebsd-net Wed Sep 27 12:44:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C297F37B423 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9C5D51C76; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:44:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:44:08 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Chris Angell Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS Message-ID: <20000927154408.R34501@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from chris62vw@hotmail.com on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:39:48PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Chris Angell wrote: > I have tried everything to get my DNS working right. For some reason telnet > and ftp won't resolve host names, I think because my computer won't do > reverse mapping for DNS. Ping, Traceroute, and other utilities like > nslookup work fine, but I don't think they do reverse mapping. > > I have named running on my system, but the problem persists even if I turn > it off and use other name servers, like my ISP's name server. > > I have been struggling with this problem for a while, and it is quite > annoying. I would appreciate all the help I could get on the subject. Workaround: telnet -N Solution: Fix your name servers (or if its a real bug in FreeBSD, provide more details). -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message