Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:56:36 +0100 From: "Paul Caselton" <paul.caselton@somewhere.tv> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Host lookup trouble... Message-ID: <OLEGKMOHMJLLHNJNENLHEEIOCHAA.paul.caselton@somewhere.tv>
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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. Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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