Newbie help: domain name servers and (inter)networking.

[Lisa]

If config -a shows a lot of things hehe.  I can't paste it but I'll try to
type this out:

Sis0: flags=8843<Up,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1400 inet6
fe80::2d0:9ff:feec:9126%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.1.13
netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:d0:09:ec:91:26 media:
Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX) status: active
Plip0: flags-8810<POINTOPOINT, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
Lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
Inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
Inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3


The output of netstat -rn shows;


Default ; 192.168.1.1 ; UGS ; 0 ; 0 ; sis0
127.0.0.1 ; 127.0.0.1 ; UH ; 1 ; 416; lo0
192.168.1 ; link#1 ; UC ; 0 ; 0 ; sis0
192.168.1.1 ; link#1 ; UHLW ; 1 ; 126 ; sis0
192.168.1.13 ; 127.0.0.1 ; UGHS ; 0 ; 0 ; lo0

I do not currently have a /etc/resolve.conf - is it safe for me to just
create that?

Thank you for your help so far!


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [mailto:kdk at daleco.biz] 
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 3:29 PM
To: Lisa
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newbie help: domain name servers and (inter)networking.

Lisa wrote:

>Greetings all,
>
>It has been a long time since I worked with any unix, and I had a spare 
>pc laying around that hadn't been on in months, so I decided to toss 
>freebsd onto it.
>
>The installation went smoothly and I've got it up and running.  My next 
>goal is to get it's internet access working flawlessly.
>
>The problem that I'm having is that while it can get access via IP 
>address, it's domain resolutions are not working.  The way that I've 
>been setting this up is via tutorials on the net, going into
>
>Sysinstall -> configure -> interfaces -> sis0 then hitting yes for it 
>to auto detect everything.
>
>All of this comes up really beautifully and happily.  The details it 
>discoveres are 100% correct.  However, I can not get the little box in 
>Interfaces to hold an 'x' (not sure if that's right or not anyway) and 
>when I exit sysinstall and go back, it has not retained the information.
>
>When I do an nslookup from shell, it shows my ip as 0.0.0.0 which is 
>probably part of the problem.  It should be showing my internal IP 
>(192.168.1.13); which it does detect in sysinstall....
>
>Anyway, as you can see from this message, I'm a complete beginner at this.
>If anyone is willing to take some time and work through it with me, I'd 
>be really super appreciative.
>
>The option of re-working the network is nil, as well; there are 6 xp 
>machines so I have to get it talking to the existant network; which is 
>based off a linksys router.
>
>Thank you all in advance.
>  
>

Nameserver IP addresses go in the file /etc/resolv.conf.

What is the output of "ifconfig -a"?

Also, what does "netstat -rn" show?

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.

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