DNS and Gateway in FreeBSD?

[Xu Qiang]

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> Xu Qiang wrote:
> 
>> Hi, all:
>> 
>> In setting up my FreeBSD machine in my LAN, I only assigned it an ip
>> address and a netmask, just as the handbook said
>> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html).
>> 
>> But after that, it can identify the proxy server's name even i
>> didn't give it an explicit DNS server ip address. (It can ping
>> proxy.abc.com) And I found the gateway is also found automatically
>> by the machine. (It is automatically added into the line beginnin
>> with "defaultrouter=")    
>> 
>> Is it designed behavior? I can't understand that. :(
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Xu Qiang
>> 
>> 
> May be, you have dhcp client runned on this machine ?


No, I didn't have dhcp installed. :(

Regards,
Xu Qiang