sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems

[Hauan, David]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jorge Mario G. [mailto:murcielako at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:21 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems
> 
> 
> Hi there
> I`ve been experiencing resolving problems with freebsd 
> 5.2.1-release-p9
> 
> the problem is this: I CAN NOT RESOLV
> my hosts file is ok
> looks like this in the gateway
> 
> #####################################
> 127.0.0.1  localhost localhost.myfoodamin.org
> 192.168.0.1   a a.foodoamin.org #NIC2
> 192.168.0.2   b b.foodomain.org # WIFI AP
> 192.168.0.254 laptop laptop.foodoamin.org # latop
> ...
> ...
> ######################################
> the laptop (Linux/FreeBSD) has the same hosts file
> and linux can ping to the outside world ALWAYS.
> so can do it the Windows boxes.
> 
> the resolv.conf is not the problem because is working
> for linux in the same box and some other windows
> machines.
> 
> FreeBSD (the gateway and laptop) can ping to the
> outside world Some times but very rarely
> 
> I can not figure out what can be the problem
> 
> when I run tcpdump on the latop I see it tries to
> resolv DNS but it cant
> 
> somthing like this
> icmp echo request freebsd.org (my DNS servers) here
> then it tries freebsd.foodamain.org
> 
> then after like 2 mins I get
> 
> coulnt lookup host 
> or something like that
> 
> please any help would be apreciated this is driving me nuts
> 
> =====

Can you ping outside IP addresses from this machine?

dave