Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 09:35:28 -0800 From: Michael Smith <mksmith@noanet.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Host lookup trouble... Message-ID: <B8D1CEE0.65D3%mksmith@noanet.net> In-Reply-To: <OLEGKMOHMJLLHNJNENLHEEIOCHAA.paul.caselton@somewhere.tv>
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On 4/4/02 4:56 AM, "Paul Caselton" <paul.caselton@somewhere.tv> espoused:
> Hello All,
>
> I am having some trouble getting my FreeBSD box to ping anything outside of
> our local network, have set-up the /etc/hosts file for all the machines
> locally (they are all Win2000). And can ping them all fine using IP
> addresses or the aliases.
>
> But as soon as I try to ping a web address I get:
>
> ping: cannot resolve *******.co.uk: Host name lookup failure
>
> Our Internet access is through one of the said W2k boxes, it is running a
> software proxy server, have managed to get Lynx accessing the web through
> it, although this was using an http_proxy environment variable.
>
> I'm thinking I need to have access to a name server, and have set the
> service up on our proxy (192.168.0.1:53) to point to our ISPs primary
> server, but I'm not sure where to go from here, or even if I'm going in the
> right direction.
>
> Any suggestions / help would be appreciated.
>
>
Hello:
Make sure you have properly configured /etc/resolv.conf with the domain and
IP information for your DNS server.
domain <domain.end>
nameserver <ip address>
nameserver <2nd ip if you wish>
Mike
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