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 -- Olaf Hoyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
