From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 12:14:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A38C614F9D for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:14:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 2844 invoked from network); 28 Sep 1999 19:14:40 -0000 Received: from userak74.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.134.48) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 28 Sep 1999 19:14:40 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id UAA01095; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:14:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:14:37 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname resolving Message-ID: <19990928201437.F279@marder-1> References: <19990928192749.B279@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:45:26PM +0100, J McKitrick wrote: > No, this happens when i connect before starting netscape. It also affects > ping and telnet. There is simply no connection. The modem says there is, > but after the initial connection, no data gets through. > You haven't got ``bind'' commented out, or missing, from /etc/host.conf have you? Also, are the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf those of your ISP? I use 2 ISPs and when connected to one can't get names resolved if /etc/resolv.conf contains the IPs of the other (I know this because one of them doesn't respond to the ``enable dns'' in ppp.conf and update resolve.conf). > jcm > > -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message