[nycbug-talk] Problem with Hostnames

[Tilly]

Hey

Thanks scoot. I got it to work. I didnt read the last part of your message
after the defaultrouter statement you made. Sorry for the incovience i may
have caused.

Tilly
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tilly" <tilly at serversunited.com>
To: <talk at lists.nycbug.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] Problem with Hostnames


> Hey
>
> It seems i dont have a gateway set. So i put in
>
> defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
>
> right under my ifconfig_dc0 statement. Then i do a ping outside of my
> network and i get No route to host and this is after i saved the config
file
> and did a /etc/rc.d/netif restart
>
> This is driving me insane.
>
> Tilly
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Scott Robbins" <scottro at nyc.rr.com>
> To: <talk at lists.nycbug.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 10:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] Problem with Hostnames
>
>
> > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:02:45PM -0400, Tilly wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am new to bsd and i am usign bsd. I have manually setup my internet
in
> the
> > > rc.conf as:
> > >
> > > hostname="bsdBOX.bsd.serversunited.com"
> > > ifconfig_dc0="inet 192.168.1.95 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > >
> > > and i am having problems looking up hostnames. This is what is in my
> > > resolv.conf
> > >
> > > domain darkorb.net
> > > search darkorb.net
> > > nameserver 216.118.116.101
> > > nameserver 66.96.193.2
> > > nameserver 66.96.194.2
> >
> > Just the two obvious questions to make sure we're not overlooking
> > something silly.  Not that I (cough cough) have ever done something like
> > this but err, uh, it happened to a friend.  :)
> >
> > Question one--you can ping anything by IP address?  Such as yahoo?
> >
> > (216.109.118.77)
> >
> > Question 2--the default gateway?  For instance, my /etc/rc.conf has
> >
> > defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
> >
> > (Although if you're able to ping yahoo.com by IP address, the gateway
> isn't
> > the issue.)
> >
> > HTH but I doubt it will--still, never hurts to check the obvious.
> >
> > If you do have to add the gateway, the syntax is slightly different than
> > linux.   It's just
> >
> > route add default 192.168.1.1  (Assuming that was your gateway address)
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Scott Robbins
> >
> > PGP keyID EB3467D6
> > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 )
> > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
> >
> > Spike: I did a couple of slayers in my time. I don't like to
> > brag. Who am I kidding? I love to brag. One time, during the
> > Boxer Rebellion...
> >
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