From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 23 02:52:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA11620 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 02:52:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jocki.domestic.de (kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de [194.233.216.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA11595 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 02:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joki@localhost) by jocki.domestic.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00426; Fri, 23 May 1997 11:52:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:43:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Joachim Kuebart To: Mark J Wheeler Subject: RE: FreeBSD running CERN Cc: Help? Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 23-May-97 at 00:30:14 Mark J Wheeler wrote: > >I'm having a bit of a problem and need some help if possible. > >Problem: >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". >I think the networks is fine? >I think the netstart is fine? > >I think everyting else is okay but I run into a wall when I try to get a >web page by the address of http://www.c-mode.net; http://199.1.1.3 works >fine but no domain name. Is this because of the dash in c-mode? >I am ignorant of a majority of UNIX stuff but seem to have made it this >far. >Any help or suggestions you could provide would be greatly appreciated. >Sincerely, Mark Wheeler Hi, o you need to set up a nameserver. Do this in /etc/resolv.conf (man resolv.conf for help). o If you want to contact only a few hosts by name, put them into /etc/hosts. o To use both in a sensible order, rewrite /etc/host.conf to contain "hosts" before "bind". cu Jo --------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD - top breeders recommend it Joachim Kuebart Tel: +49 711 653706 Germany