From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 2 14:46:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16417 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 14:46:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16387 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 14:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA035770896823967; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:46:07 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA00670; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:46:07 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21496; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:43:15 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA01054; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:43:14 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:43:14 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Timothy Mohr cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP - Help! In-Reply-To: <357366D5.62EDBE6B@sacemail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message