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[Joshua S. Freeman]

hi all,

We've just got our first BSD box... it's an ION computing box with about
800GB running freeBSD...

I have ok (5 on a scale of 10) linux-fu and I am writing this on TiBook
running OSX/Darwin.

This box is intended to be our AMANDA backup server to drive our
spectralogic 20 slot tape storage library.

We are running into a couple of problems.

First,  we could not get dhclient to work.

So we gave up on that and i ran ifconfig to give the machine an ip address,
netmask, ran route to give it a gateway address and edited /etc/resolv.conf
and /etc/hosts

Everything should work, and for the most part, things DO work.. except it
STILL can't resolve hostnames.

Also, I noticed that when I rebooted the box, it seemed to have lost the IP
settings in ifconfig.

Any advice welcome.

Thanks!

J.


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