Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:11:53 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS Resolver Problem Message-ID: <C8B4CA21-2318-4EF5-83E2-38C96D58ED32@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <45AC750D.1030405@bobmc.net> References: <563999.58586.qm@web59208.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <45AC750D.1030405@bobmc.net>
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On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Bob McIsaac wrote: > linux quest wrote: >> Dear Jay & The FreeBSD Communities, >> >> Thanks for putting your time and patience to help me out. Anyway, >> I tried it out, both changing the rc.conf and the dhclient.conf >> (one at a time). After that (for both of the ways), I did manage >> to stop the resolv.conf from being overwritten after the PC >> reboot. However, when I ping 192.168.52.1 or 192.168.52.2, the >> error msg says that there is no route to both of the IP. Even >> after I add the default route by using command line ... I am still >> unable to ping google.com. >> >> Then, I undo everything by using VMWare... (including undo the >> DHCP configuration in rc.conf) so that I am able to ping >> google.com again. >> Since, I desperately needed to connect to the Internet at this >> point of time, I create a file called resolv.conf in /root ... I >> am thinking how can I create a script so that it can copy >> resolv.conf from /root to /etc/resolv.conf every 30 minutes at >> start up - This is because I don't wanna manually type in "cp / >> root/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf" every 30 minutes. >> >> Hope somebody can share with me the simple coding. Thanks :) >> >> Regards, >> Linux Quest >> >> Jay Chandler <chandler@chapman.edu> wrote: Please don't top-post. >> >> linux quest wrote: >> >>> Dear Jay, >>> >>> Actually, I am running FreeBSD Unix on a VMWare machine (Host OS: >>> Win2003, Guest OS: FreeBSD). >>> >>> Any ideas how I can disable / ignore the routing from the VMnet8? >>> Below are the only VMWare NAT configuration that I have access >>> to. No DHCP enable / disable option. >>> >>> >>> Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8: >>> >>> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : >>> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.52.1 >>> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 >>> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.52.2 >>> >>> >>> When I install FreeBSD, I remember I did select some option to >>> enable DHCP. Perhaps, I should disable the DHCP service in FreeBSD >>> (Guest OS) - if so, any idea how do I do it? >>> >>> Thanks :) >>> >>> Regards, >>> Linux Quest >>> >>> >>> >> Simple enough, then. >> Edit /etc/rc.conf, and remove the line relating to the dhcp >> client. Then add: >> defaultrouter="192.168.51.2" >> hostname="boxname!" >> ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.52.WHATEVERYOUWANT netmask 255.255.255.0" >> >> > Hi: > > DHCP intends that everything works easily. However, if the DHCP > lease is unsatisfactory, you can > change it after doing man dhclient.conf. Can you post /var/db/ > dhclient.leases? Also, in one shell > type "tcpdump -v -c 20" and in another do ping or click a web > page. Finally, "netstat -r" > > regards, > -Bob- defaultrouter should match the gateway IP address for the virtual interface you're using in FreeBSD under vmware; defaultrouter is an alias for the default route use by the kernel for directing packets (this can be viewed by looking at netstat -nr and looking for the default route, or "route show default"--more verbose output). The subnet/IP should match something similar to what's provided with DHCP--just in static form (which /etc/rc.conf will provide). -Garrett
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