DNS settings in FreeBSD?

Xu Qiang Qiang.Xu at fujixerox.com
Wed Jul 27 09:05:58 GMT 2005


Glenn Dawson wrote:
> At 01:46 AM 7/27/2005, Xu Qiang wrote:
>> Hi, all:
>> 
>> Last time I asked you that why the machine can map the hostname to ip
>> address without setting DNS Server in "/etc/rc.conf".
>> 
>> Now I remember that I have provided DNS ip address in the initial
>> installing stage, where the installation wizard asked for me about
>> the settings step by step, in which I set the machine's hostname, ip
>> address, domain, gateway, subnet mask, and DNS server ip address.
>> 
>> Now, when I open the file "/etc/rc.conf", I found the machine's
>> hostname, ip address, subnet mask, domain, and gateway/router are
>> all in it. 
>> 
>> Yet, where is the DNS setting? If not in this file, which file does
>> this setting reside in?
> 
> /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> 
>> P.S.: In solaris, I can use dos2unix to transfer txt file from
>> DOS/Windows format to Unix format, what is the corresponding command
>> in FreeBSD? 
> 
> Install the dosunix port,  It's in /usr/ports/converters/dosunix
> 
> -Glenn

Got it, thank you!

Regards,
Xu Qiang



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