Problems with DNS

[Frank Shute]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:07:42PM -0700, perikillo wrote:
>
>    HI all.
> 
>      I have one freebsd box running 5.3, i get my IP from one internal
> DHCP running NT 4.0, here we have one PDC on NT 4.0, to get to the
> outside we pass thru one http proxy and one firewall, i have my user
> and password for the proxy, i want to get outside, i install manually
> the cvsup program, i download that one from another machine and burn
> the file on that machine because i cannot made my freebsd box reach
> internet.
> 
>      I already setup this variables:
> 
>      /root/.cshrc
>     setenv HTTP_PROXY http://myuser:mypass@192.168.1.2:3128
>     setenv FTP_PROXY http://myuser:mypass@192.168.1.2:3128
> 
>      /etc/make.conf
> 
>     FETCH_ENV= HTTP_PROXY=http://myuser:mypass@192.168.1.2:8080
>     FETCH_ENV= FTP_PROXY=http://myuser:mypass@192.168.1.2:8080
> 
>     i have my NIC setup on /etc/rc.conf to get the IP from my DHCP
> server, and found my lease on /var/db/dhcp.lease
> 
>     There i see my info, my domain, i create my /etc/resolv.conf and
> input my domain:
> 
> nameserver     MYDOMAIN   <----My lease have this 
> 
>     But went i run cvsup, say that it cannot resolved hostname, i
> really dont know what more to do, i read the handbook, but dont find
> any good info on the DHCP setup, only talk about the server but not
> about how to setup the client, only say some files, dhcp.conf, etc.
> 
>    I need to setup those files...?

Try passing the DNS info via dhclient.conf rather than resolv.conf.
eg. in dhclient.conf:

interface "ep0" {
        media "media 10baseT/UTP";
        prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1, 192.168.0.2;
}

Just replace the IP addresses above with those of your primary and
secondary DNS.


-- 

 Frank 


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