dhclient and host resolution
Killermink !
killermink at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 18 02:45:20 PDT 2004
Thats fantastic it works!
I thought it would be something simple...
I tried a
$more /etc/resolv.conf
But the file did not exist. So I su'ed and
#echo "nameserver 192.168.2.1" > /etc/resolv.conf
(this is the correct IP for the Mac)
then
#ping www.google.com
And it worked immediately! Thanks very much, I feel pretty stupid with such
an easy answer, but shouldn't this info be provided by dhclient? If I move
to another network, say with a gateway of 10.x.x.x or other, will I have to
change resolv.conf again? Is there anyway to get this automatically or is
it a feature of FreeBSD/dhclient?
Many thanks again!
----Original Message Follows----
From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer at ohoyer.de>
To: Killermink! <killermink at hotmail.com>
CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: dhclient and host resolution
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 11:21:42 +0200 (CEST)
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Killermink ! wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Apple PowerBook running Panther and have set it to share my
modem
> internet connection over the Ethernet port. FreeBSD is connected to this
> and should get all config via DHCP. When dhclient runs, it successfully
> gets an IP Address from the Powerbook, and I can ping between machines...
A
> quick look at the leases file also shows that it has the Powerbook as the
> Gateway and as the DNS server. However, I can only get to the Internet
> from the BSD box using IP addresses, trying a url such as www.google.com
> always fails as it cant resolve the host, plus the response is immediate
as
> if it hasn't tried or waited for a response.
>
Well, sound like DNS prblems.
What is the content of your /etc/resolv.conf?
then, when there is an entry like:
nameserver 192.168.1.1
(192.168.1.1 being the IP of the MAC), then check if the DNS on your MAC
is working by:
####
nslookup - 192.168.1.1
set q=any
freebsd.org
####
Well, then your MAC should resolve some IP and mx data, when not, the
DNS on your MAC is misfunctional.
You also can specify DNS in the /etc/resolv.conf that are on the
outside, or you could run named as caching resolver.
Therefore, populate /etc/hosts with the IP/name of FreeBSD box, run
/etc/named/make-localhost
and then start named.
In /etc/resolv.conf put a :
nameserver 127.0.0.1
as first nameserver statement, and FreeBSD will directly resolve...
HTH
Olaf
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