I am no expert by any means, but the problem I was having sounds simular. I
had a fresh install on friday, I could get to the web but dns resolutions
were incredibly, slow and timing out most of the time. But my box is now
working perfectly.
#1 you dns nameservers addresses need to be in /etc/
I am new to FREEBSD and trying 5.3 on my compaq presario 2190US laptop. After
a fight I got the CD and everything running. Now my dns resolutions keep
timing out. I do not see anything on the errata, can someone point me in a
direction to do some light reading or to a patch. The problem seems