No internet with snapshots
Gerd Truschinski
gerd at truschinski.de
Tue May 25 13:18:10 UTC 2010
Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2010 14:18:47 +0200
> Gerd Truschinski <gerd at truschinski.de> wrote:
>
>
>> I tried to install the latest
>> FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201005-amd64-bootonly.iso.
>> FreeBSD is starting, sysinstall is running.
>> I want to install from ftp.freebsd.org. Therefor I try to set the _Media
>> Typ_ in the _Options Editor_.
>> I select the only Network Interface, a nfe, no IP6 but DHCP. I get an IP
>> address from my Router and then I get a
>> "Cannot resolv hostname ftp.freebsd.org".
>>
>> This seems to happen with older snapshots also.
>>
>> What could I do. What information did you need?
>>
>>
>
> Looks like there's no name server, although the router should have passed
> that info with the other DHCP data.
>
> Look whether there's an option to set a name server (I haven't done an
> install for a long time so I can't remember). If there is you could use
> 8.8.8.8, which is a Google name server which works quite well (and it's
> easy to remember).
>
>
No, I get the correct gateway and name server address from the router.
But thank you for the 8.8.8.8 :-)
/gT/
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