Re: resolv.conf missing

From: Nathan Kinkade (nkinkade_at_ub.edu.bz)
Date: 10/09/04

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To: Lance Earl <lance@dallypost.com>

    On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:40:40PM -0600, Lance Earl wrote:
    > I am planning to convert my redhat server (www.dallypost.com) to 5.x
    > freebsd when 5.x is released as stable. Until then, I am working with
    > 5.1.2 to get familiar with it.
    >
    > I have installed it on a dhcp network with the following:
    >
    > dhcp server: 192.168.0.1
    > fedora computer: 192.168.0.2
    > bsd computer: 192.168.0.3
    >
    > >From the v 5.x computer I can ping 182.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2.
    > When I try to ping 192.168.0.3, the ping fails. I can however ping
    > 192.168.0.4 successfully. I cannot ping anything on the Internet.
    >
    > Problem 1: During the install, I set the ip to 192.168.0.3, yet the bsd
    > computer is responding as 192.168.0.4.
    >
    > Problem 2: Because I cannot ping the internet, I went to take a look at
    > etc/resolv.conf but it is not there.
    >
    > I have installed v 4.9 on multiple occasions and it has always worked
    > fine. Installion of 5.1.2 exactly the same way fails to connect to the
    > internet via my gateway. Any help will be appreciated.

    Was it a type that you excluded the initial slash (/) from
    etc/resolv.conf? resolv.conf is usually just 3 or 4 lines longs, so if
    for some strange reason it is missing you can always just create it.
    Put in one or two entries such as:

    nameserver <IPofDNS1>
    nameserver <IPofDNS2>

    # man resolv.conf

    Perhaps resolv.conf missing could be cause to invesitage whether your
    install went well, and if other things might be missing as well?

    Nathan 

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