DNS Resolver Problem

[Bob McIsaac]

linux quest wrote:
> Dear Jay & The FreeBSD Communities,
>
> Thanks for putting your time and patience to help me out. Anyway, I tried it out, both changing the rc.conf and the dhclient.conf (one at a time). After that (for both of the ways), I did manage to stop the resolv.conf from being overwritten after the PC reboot. However, when I ping 192.168.52.1 or 192.168.52.2, the error msg says that there is no route to both of the IP. Even after I add the default route by using command line ... I am still unable to ping google.com.
>
> Then, I undo everything by using VMWare... (including undo the DHCP configuration in rc.conf) so that I am able to ping google.com again. 
>
> Since, I desperately needed to connect to the Internet at this point of time, I create a file called resolv.conf in /root ... I am thinking how can I create a script so that it can copy resolv.conf from /root to /etc/resolv.conf every 30 minutes at start up - This is because I don't wanna manually type in "cp /root/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf" every 30 minutes.
>
> Hope somebody can share with me the simple coding. Thanks :)
>
> Regards,
> Linux Quest
>
> Jay Chandler <chandler at chapman.edu> wrote: Please don't top-post.
>
> linux quest wrote:
>   
>> Dear Jay,
>>
>> Actually, I am running FreeBSD Unix on a VMWare machine (Host OS: 
>> Win2003, Guest OS: FreeBSD).
>>
>> Any ideas how I can disable / ignore the routing from the VMnet8? 
>> Below are the only VMWare NAT configuration that I have access to. No 
>> DHCP enable / disable option.
>>
>>
>> Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:
>>
>>    Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
>>    IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.52.1
>>    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
>>    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.52.2
>>
>>
>> When I install FreeBSD, I remember I did select some option to enable 
>> DHCP. Perhaps, I should disable the DHCP service in FreeBSD(Guest OS) 
>> - if so, any idea how do I do it?
>>
>> Thanks :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Linux Quest
>>
>>
>>     
> Simple enough, then. 
>
> Edit /etc/rc.conf, and remove the line relating to the dhcp client.  
> Then add:
> defaultrouter="192.168.51.2"
> hostname="boxname!"
> ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.52.WHATEVERYOUWANT  netmask 255.255.255.0"
>
>   
Hi:

DHCP intends that everything works easily.  However, if the DHCP lease 
is unsatisfactory, you can
change it after doing man dhclient.conf.   Can you post 
/var/db/dhclient.leases? Also,  in one shell
type "tcpdump -v -c 20" and in another do ping or click a web page.  
Finally, "netstat -r"

regards,
-Bob-