From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 10:28:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA01346 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:28:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA01332 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:28:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA00497; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 19:28:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199610041728.TAA00497@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: new and dumb 2 In-Reply-To: <32551BE2.435F@camel.com> from D B Dews at "4. Oct. 96 9:12:02" To: d.b.dews@camel.com (D B Dews) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 19:28:12 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] 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 > Thanks to all for your help with previous question. I found > /etc/sysconfig, and learned vi sufficiently to edit it a bit, but where > in this file do I place the DNS (as called in DOS/NT land, don't know > what you call it.) The domain name server IP address? I set it up > thusly in Netconfig Section: > > hostname=asa386-20.camel.com [name of machine BSD is on] > defaultdomainname=camel.com [my domain name] Are you using NIS/YP ? defaultdomainname is NOT the DNS domainname. > tcp_extensions=YES > weak..etc=NO > network_interfaces="ep0" [there was an lo0 in there but it kept coming > up [with a 10Base2 address which messed everything up...my system is > [10BaseT...so I deleted it] > ifconfig_ep0="inet 204.251.34.195 netmask 255.255.255.224" [inet is the > [IP of the BSD box, netmask is my ISP-assigned netmask] > > I chose "NO" for gateway and all else, router=routed. Anyone tell me > where the DNS value should go? It's in /etc/resolv.conf. The simplest form is: domain camel.com nameserver Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de