Internet Connection Problem - DNS Related?

Chad Gross avatar4d at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 06:25:20 PST 2006


On 12/20/06, linux quest <linuxquest7570 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> I am a new user of FreeBSD. I have already installed FreeBSD succesfully.
> However, I am not able to connect to the Internet. I have read the ppp
> manual in FreeBSD (by typing man ppp), but I still can't connect to the
> Internet.
>
> This is what happened at my prompt ...
>
> abc# ping google.com
> ping: cannot resolve google.com: Host name lookup failure
>
> Then, I thought perhaps I haven't configure my DNS. So I typed man dns,
> but I can't find the DNS manual, and yes... I know my ISP DNS IP address.
> But I don't know where to configure it in FreeBSD.


man resolve.conf


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