Internet Connection via Ethernet Can't See External DNS

[Kent Stewart]

On Thursday 06 November 2003 01:35 pm, Seth Burgess wrote:
> I am installing and configuring FreeBSD 4.8 for the first time.  My
> internet connection is through a gateway on my peer to peer network.  My
> internet connection is working because I can contact IP addresses on the
> internet.  However, I cannot contact addresses requiring DNS.
>
> I have entered working DNS addresses in my /etc/resolv.conf file like this:
>
> nameserver 12.162.136.13
>
> For some reason my installation is not using the nameservers I have entered
> in resolv.conf and is behaving as if no name server is available.
>
> What have I done wrong?
>

Sounds like you don't have hosts and bind in host.conf

Kent

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