From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 22 17:59:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA20596 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 May 1997 17:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA20591 for ; Thu, 22 May 1997 17:59:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA00060; Fri, 23 May 1997 00:59:00 GMT Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:59:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Mark J Wheeler cc: Help? Subject: Re: FreeBSD running CERN In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 May 1997, Mark J Wheeler wrote: > I have an intranet set up with FreeBSD on a 486 pc with a surrounding > network of Win95 pcs. I can telnet the server by IP address but not by > domainname. I can ping everyone by address but get a bad address when I > ping to the domain name. I thought I had everything set up . . . > In the etc/sysconfig I have hostname="www.c-mode.net" and I have the > defaultdomainname="c-mode.net". But c-mode.net is not a registered domain. Are you connected to the net (on this network :) ?? If *not*, then go ahead and setup a nameserver on the FreeBSD box and make it primary for c-mode.net. Have all the PCs point at the name server. If you are on the net, and for some reason cannot use a registered domain, pick a better name. Something like my.domain that won't exist in real life. You can then setup the name server and primary my.domain without too much worry of conflicts. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82