Question on FreeBSD name resolution

[Ryan Merrick]

chris wrote:
> I just installed 5.1 and have been playing around with it, but I am
> troubled by an issue with my network configuration.  I apologize if this
> is the wrong list, it seemed to be the most appropriate.  I want to at
> least get the machine working so then I can start working through
> learning the ins and outs.
>  
> My FreeBSD box is running on a Dell laptop on my home network where I
> have three other Windows based machines.  All of my machines are
> configured to use another NT-Based firewall as both the default gateway
> and DNS server, which is connected out to the Internet via cable.  
>  
> I’m using the default network settings that were configured when I
> installed the system.  The network card is configured to use DHCP and
> when I do an ifconfig I see the Ethernet card has an appropriately
> assigned IP address & netmask.    If I ping a website by it’s DNS name,
> the name resolves quickly and I get ping responses back pretty quickly
> (as I would expect).  When I use FTP, Telnet, or WWW to try to connect
> to an address by FQDN, it takes a few minutes to establish the
> connection.  However when I use the associated IP address instead of the
> FQDN it connects instantly.  
>  
> It seems like the TCP (or at least FTP, WWW & Telnet) programs are
> having an issue with resolving the name.  My guess is that they are
> timing out through trying to resolve via one means, and therefore then
> try a DNS resolve.  Is there a way to determine the order in which the
> system currently does name resolution?  I looked for the host.conf file
> in my /etc folder and there was one, but even when I added one in it
> didn’t help.  
>  
>  

Hello,

You should be looking in your #/etc/resolv.conf . If you don't have one 
make it.

Ryan Merrick