From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 1:55:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C403E14F36 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 01:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:25:44 +0100 Received: from sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.133]) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 11t3y5-0001oW-00; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:14:25 +0100 Received: from localhost (hg9456@localhost) by sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01919; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:25:37 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de: hg9456 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:25:35 +0100 (MET) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun33 To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Ariel Burbaickij , Sheldon Hearn , keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: row of questions to different parts of fbsd In-Reply-To: <19991201092249.A13589@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> 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 Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 09:06:02PM +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > [...] > > It was not so simple with netscape,though(as I hope it was with jdk) > > Allow me to explain once more.The problem I experience is not about > > being impossible to get netscape mask(I hope you use termin,maybe > > your reference it as netscape's window)problem is get connected to > > remote host.I get coonection refused from them.Afterwards I tried > > the same hosts as root and got connected.I fear that while running > > as user it could not even manage to get DNS lookup.Addresses of remote > > hosts(neither numeric nor human-readable)shown up.The version used is > > 3.01.I guess it was rather narrating but not descriptive to you :)) > > You really need to describe your problem better, the amount of detail > you give to the list comes out in dribs and drabs; the way to ask > questions is to give *ALL* details at the start, and not have the list > extract it from you. > > Having said that: If your user are having problems doing DNS lookups, > what are the permssions on /etc/resolv.conf (and possibly /etc/hosts)? > > > If so do not bother to ask any additional questions > > What are you saying here? I am saying here exactly what I have forseen ,You know you want this information from me or that but I guess it is not so hard to understand that if I already ask question it means also that I cannot localize the root of malfuction by myself and do not know already on the start of the treating of problem what will be neccessary to deal with: So i say in case that the situation is not entirely clear for you I will be more then happy to provide all answers on your questions Btw how did you imagine the problem report in this situation? > --- > Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. > Twice is coincidence. > Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message