From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 14:44:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA21543 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 14:44:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from iguana.ruralnet.net (tianlin@iguana.ruralnet.net [205.198.192.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21534 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 14:44:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tianlin@localhost) by iguana.ruralnet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA14282; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:52:18 -0700 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:52:18 -0700 (MST) From: Tianlin Wang To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: HELP: private network and mail Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I recently built a private network consisting Sun SpartStation (Solaris2.5) and Pentium (FreeBSD2.1) and a hub. Solaris box has its host name ultralean and the FreeBSD box has its host name supanee. telnet, ftp and rlogin are all working fine, except mail. I have difficult time to understand the file /etc/resolv.conf, which requires something like domain cs.cornell.edu nameserver 1.2.3.4 Because my system is a private network system, there are no domain and nameserver. I will be grateful if someonme can give me some points (hints) to my difficulty. Best Regards Tianlin Wang