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Date:      Wed, 9 Sep 1998 12:58:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: solaris
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980909124947.19220B-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <35F650C0.9907C1BA@turkey.ispro.net.tr>

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On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote:

> first of them is it does not want to resolv dns...
> I have setup an /etc/resolv.conf file
> and now nslookup and some utilities are working.
> but some utilities like telnet and ping are not able to
> resolv dns names...

Check `/etc/nsswitch.conf' and remove NIS where you don't need it; 
possibly your system tries to resolve host names by NIS.

> the second problem is the machine things that
> it is the gateway! how may I set the default gateway?

Put its address in `/etc/defaultrouter'.

Konrad Heuer

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