newbie dns mess w/ nic

[Steve Bertrand]

> I had everything working as evidenced by installing a port or two -
> including the Lynx browser which worked; then rebooted last night and now
> can't get dns working again.
>
> My LAN has a windoz xp box with dial up and ICS enabled. It is 192.168.0.1
> on the network. My FBSD box will ping to localhost, 192.168.0.7 (itself),
> and other boxes on LAN by either name or IP. But when I try to ping google
> etc.. I get "No route to host".
>

Add the following to your /etc/rc.conf file:

default_router="192.168.0.1"

and then perform the following command to get it online without a reboot:

# route add default 192.168.0.1

Hope this helps.

Steve

>
> $ cat /etc/rc.conf
>
> # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Nov  8 18:24:40 2003
> # Created: Sat Nov  8 18:24:40 2003
> # Enable network daemons for user convenience.
> # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> # This file no longer contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> hostname="fbsd.my.domain"
> kern_securelevel_enable="NO"
> linux_enable="YES"
> moused_enable="YES"
> nfs_reserved_port_only="YES"
> sendmail_enable="YES"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> ifconfig_ep0="inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 10baseT/UTP"
> firewall_enable="no"
>
>
> $ cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/landns.root.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> natd -dynamic -interface ep0
> dhclient ep0
> ifconfig ep0 inet 192.168.0.7 255.255.255.0
> echo Everone Feeling Better Now? 8^}
>
>
> $ netstat -rn
> Routing tables
>
> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
> 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          2        6    lo0
> 192.168.0          link#1             UC          3        0    ep0
> 192.168.0.1        00:08:74:c0:5e:69  UHLW        2      200    ep0   1065
> 192.168.0.7        00:20:af:4d:24:b7  UHLW        0        4    lo0
> 192.168.0.150      00:a0:cc:40:55:cf  UHLW        0        2    ep0    735
> 192.168.0.222      127.0.0.1          UGHS        0        2    lo0
>
> Internet6:
> Destination                       Gateway                       Flags
> Netif Expire
> ::1                               ::1                           UH          lo0
> fe80::%ep0/64                     link#1                        UC          ep0
> fe80::220:afff:fe4d:24b7%ep0      00:20:af:4d:24:b7             UHL         lo0
> fe80::%lo0/64                     fe80::1%lo0                   Uc          lo0
> fe80::1%lo0                       link#4                        UHL         lo0
> ff01::/32                         ::1                           U           lo0
> ff02::%ep0/32                     link#1                        UC          ep0
> ff02::%lo0/32                     ::1                           UC          lo0
>
>
>
> $ ifconfig -a
> ep0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>          inet6 fe80::220:afff:fe4d:24b7%ep0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>          inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0
>          ether 00:20:af:4d:24:b7
>          media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP
> lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>          inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>          inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>          inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
> $
>
>
> Hey, at least I've got local connectivity stable now so I can copy and
> paste this stuff... oops maybe I shouldn't have even said anything to jinx
> this. <pondering how bad things will get before some knowledge pervades my
> being>
>
>
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