On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:30:56 -0400, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm trying to get a machine working, but it can't seem to handle DNS >> requests. I've just done a 7.0 install (from CD, usually I use net, >> but it wasn't connecting to anything, now I know why). >> >> I have a machine with two built in NICs on the motheroboard, one using >> nfe the other using bge. When I try to connect to anything, I get a >> "cannot resolve host error". Both are set up to be static, >> 192.168.1.84, and bge is 192.168.1.86. I have tried both "192.168.1.1" >> (the router, which points to the ISPs DNS) and "4.2.2.1" in the >> /etc/resolve.conf file, each separately, not both at once. The machine >> can ping both of these addresses and gets a decent to rapid return >> time (~.3ms for the former, <20ms for the latter) Neither works on >> this machine. Both work on the other FreeBSD and Windows machines in >> the house. I have the machine set to dual boot, and DNS works fine >> under Windows. > > I hope you didn't create a "resolve.conf" file, because it is called > "resolv.conf" without a final "e", i.e.:
indeed I did. I removed the 'e' and it works perfeclty. Amazing the difference a byte can make. Still, I wonder why it wouldn't work during install? I feel extremely silly at this point. Anyway, anyone know how to turn off the typo daemon? I tried 'killall -9 typod' and '/etc/rc.d/typod stop', but nothing seems to get rid of it... Thanks again for the help, -Jim Stapleton _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
