Name Lookup fail for cvsup.freebsd.org

Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. kdk at daleco.biz
Mon Sep 6 07:51:49 PDT 2004


Huajian Luo wrote:

>Hi, 
>  I have a Compaq Evo N610c Laptop and installed with
>5.2.1 release, The Modem is a Lucent winmodem , I've 
>installed comm/ltmdm and config /etc/ppp/ppp.conf as
>follow,
>--/etc/ppp/ppp.conf-
>....
>enable dns
>....
>----
>and I run #ppp -ddial myISP and check 
>/var/log/ppp/log everything is Ok , 
>but when I do
>#cvsup -g  -L2  /etc/ports-supfile
>it output:
>
>Name Lookup fail for cvsup.freebsd.org,
>host name lookup failed will retry at.blah-blah
>
>  
>

So, your ISP's servers aren't giving you any DNS
information, or else FreeBSD isn't paying attention
when it does... <?>

If you call nslookup(1), what is the result?  If you
aren't running a local nameserver, and you're not
getting any response, you should probably get an
error there, too.

Another possibility is that you have no real connectivity
at all ... something which you haven't addressed.  Can
you ping by IP address?  Maybe yahoo.com, which a moment
ago was at 66.94.234.13 ?

>--the question is should I comment out "enable dns"
>in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf to make it not check nameserver
>, cause when I dailed from windows ,I just need the 
>ISP's phone number and user/pass everything is OK.
>
>I just wanna dial to web when I'm at home, so I don't
>know how to config /etc/resolv.conf, cause this is 
>just a stand alone laptop and the Ip was dynamic 
>allocated by my ISP, and I pick up the phone an
>heard "ZzzzZzz", which means I've dialed onto web,
>and nslookup show me the same problem,
>
>thanks in advances,
>
>whatluo,
>  
>

If it is simply a DNS problem, adding the IP
addresses of your ISP's nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf
would be a valid workaround.  I don't know why DNS wouldn't
be working otherwise, *unless* you actually aren't connected
as I noted above.  "I pick up the phone an heard 'ZzzzZzz'" isn't
necessarily an indication of a successful PPP connection IMHO....

Kevin Kinsey


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