DNS and Gateway in FreeBSD?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Jun 6 14:51:36 GMT 2005


Xu Qiang <Qiang.Xu at fujixerox.com> writes:

> ????????? ????????? wrote:
> > Xu Qiang wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi, all:
> >> 
> >> In setting up my FreeBSD machine in my LAN, I only assigned it an ip
> >> address and a netmask, just as the handbook said
> >> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html).
> >> 
> >> But after that, it can identify the proxy server's name even i
> >> didn't give it an explicit DNS server ip address. (It can ping
> >> proxy.abc.com) And I found the gateway is also found automatically
> >> by the machine. (It is automatically added into the line beginnin
> >> with "defaultrouter=")    
> >> 
> >> Is it designed behavior? I can't understand that. :(
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Xu Qiang
> >> 
> >> 
> > May be, you have dhcp client runned on this machine ?
> 
> 
> No, I didn't have dhcp installed. :(

Yes, you do.  A dhcp client is part of the base system.


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