resolv.conf missing
Donald J. O'Neill
donaldj1066 at fastmail.fm
Fri Oct 8 15:18:37 PDT 2004
On Friday 08 October 2004 04:40 pm, Lance Earl wrote:
> I am planning to convert my redhat server (www.dallypost.com) to
> 5.x freebsd when 5.x is released as stable. Until then, I am
> working with 5.1.2 to get familiar with it.
>
> I have installed it on a dhcp network with the following:
>
> dhcp server: 192.168.0.1
> fedora computer: 192.168.0.2
> bsd computer: 192.168.0.3
>
> >From the v 5.x computer I can ping 182.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2.
>
> When I try to ping 192.168.0.3, the ping fails. I can however
> ping 192.168.0.4 successfully. I cannot ping anything on the
> Internet.
>
> Problem 1: During the install, I set the ip to 192.168.0.3, yet
> the bsd computer is responding as 192.168.0.4.
I suspect your dhcp server has reassigned the ip. ifconfig will tell
you what the ip address is for the bsd computer.
>
> Problem 2: Because I cannot ping the internet, I went to take a
> look at etc/resolv.conf but it is not there.
Put resolv.conf in. This is something I've always had to do after a
fresh install. Are you familiar with what should be in it?
>
> I have installed v 4.9 on multiple occasions and it has always
> worked fine. Installion of 5.1.2 exactly the same way fails to
> connect to the internet via my gateway. Any help will be
> appreciated.
>
Hope that helps a bit.
Don
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