From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 21:49: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo23.mx.aol.com (imo23.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF8615920 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ciskid@aol.com) Received: from Ciskid@aol.com (553) by imo23.mx.aol.com (IMOv20) id nCARa26761 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:44:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Ciskid@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:44:54 EDT Subject: Network problems To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 52 Reply-To: Ciskid@aol.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have two computers one FreeBSD2.2.7 and win98 linked with a cross over cable I assigned each box a private IP and am going to use windows box as a proxy to the internet. The BSD box will ping the IPs 192.168.0.1 <= windows box and 192.168.0.2 BSD box i setup /etc/hosts to have each IP in it like this 192.168.0.1 www 192.168.0.2 Technode The one thing that i cant do is ping the host names I also have setup the default route any suggestions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message