sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems

[Mark]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:11:27PM -0500, Hauan, David wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jorge Mario G. [mailto:murcielako at yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:21 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems
> > 
> > 
> > Hi there
> > I`ve been experiencing resolving problems with freebsd 
> > 5.2.1-release-p9
> > 
> > the problem is this: I CAN NOT RESOLV
> > my hosts file is ok
> > looks like this in the gateway
> > 
> > #####################################
> > 127.0.0.1  localhost localhost.myfoodamin.org
> > 192.168.0.1   a a.foodoamin.org #NIC2
> > 192.168.0.2   b b.foodomain.org # WIFI AP
> > 192.168.0.254 laptop laptop.foodoamin.org # latop
> > ...
> > ...
> > ######################################
> > the laptop (Linux/FreeBSD) has the same hosts file
> > and linux can ping to the outside world ALWAYS.
> > so can do it the Windows boxes.
> > 
> > the resolv.conf is not the problem because is working
> > for linux in the same box and some other windows
> > machines.
> > 
> > FreeBSD (the gateway and laptop) can ping to the
> > outside world Some times but very rarely
> > 
> > I can not figure out what can be the problem
> > 
> > when I run tcpdump on the latop I see it tries to
> > resolv DNS but it cant
> > 
> > somthing like this
> > icmp echo request freebsd.org (my DNS servers) here
> > then it tries freebsd.foodamain.org
> > 
> > then after like 2 mins I get
> > 
> > coulnt lookup host 
> > or something like that
> > 
> > please any help would be apreciated this is driving me nuts
> > 
> > =====
> 
> Can you ping outside IP addresses from this machine?
> 
> dave
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is there a default route set in /etc/rc.conf ?

defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" <-- called a gateway in m$land
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