Shakespeare wrote plays and sonnets which will last an eternity, but on Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 20:19 , Nandagopal wrote these truly forgetable lines:
> I'm running freeBSD 6.0 Beta 4. It has been almost 1 month > since I installed it. Everything was working fine until today. > The problem, the browser (or any other app) takes too long to > resolve a domain name; sometimes it just times out. That means the nameserver you are pointing to is not resolving the names. > However, I can access websites(services) using their ip address. > The data transfer rates are also normal. I use a cable modem and > get my IP using DHCP. As this machine is also a gateway, I run a > named. That is typical of a nameserver not responding. A nameserver just looks up the IPs, so going to an address by IP bypasses the names server. > Also, I had a system crash today due to a power failure. > Another thing I noticed since the Beta 4 install is that I > have to invoke 'dhclient' comand on my public interface very > frequently. > I tested the connection using Windows XP; everything works fine. > So I guess there should be no hardware or modem troubles. > Any help is appreciated. Find the correct name servers. I don't use DHCP but I've noticed that many say that DHCP tend to rewrite the /etc/resolv.conf to add it's own nameserver. I forget what the process was in DHCP to keep this from happening, but you can put known working nameservers in your /etc/resolv.conf and then perform a 'chflags' to make that file read only, and then nothing will change it until you reset the flags. You problem Is not a BSD problem. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
