Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:43:14 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Timothy Mohr <tmohr@sacemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP - Help! Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980603094127.1040B-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <357366D5.62EDBE6B@sacemail.com>
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Timothy Mohr wrote:
> Argh! I'm getting a little annoyed here...
>
> Everytime I dial up my ISP, make PPP connection (term, dial isp, login
> and hit ~p), and do the ALT-F1/ENTER process the program reports that it
> A) Can't resolve the IP for the URL or B) Can't make a connection to IP
> number. I use 209.155.82.18/pub/FreeBSD when asked for the "other" URL.
>
> Please tell me what I am doing wrong... I want to get FreeBSD up and
> running.
You need to setup /etc/resolv.conf so that they point to your ISP's
nameserver. The format is pretty simple:
nameserver ip-address
nameserver alt-name-server-ip-address
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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