On 10/29/07, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 28, 2007, at 3:53 PM, James wrote:
On 10/28/07, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am still having resolver problems with my 6.2 system.
It has shown up with trying to install ports from the ftp site.
I discovered that there is no resolv.conf file, so I created one.
The funny thing is if I ping one of my web sites with
www.domainName.com ping can't resolve the address.
but if I do actualHostName.domainName.com it works.
That's probably because you're pinging them via the internal address,
not the external address. If you've got a little router, it's grabbed
the internal names. If not, then this is interesting, but the same
fundamental idea would seem to hold.
That is a possibility, the possibility that seems the most plausible. I
guess I will have to disconnect the internal
network and try it to eliminate that. The router is the DSL modem
router, so it could be redirecting the dns query
at itself and not sending it out and then having it come back
It just hit me that the simplest way to solve your first problem (not being
able to update) would be to look up the server you're wanting to connect to
from a working computer, note down its IP address, and edit /etc/hosts to
include the mapping.
.
Just for control test purposes I tried from a Mac OSX machine
and was able to ping www.domainName.com. I even have
my own DNS servers listed as servers to contact in resolv.conf
Okay, did you try setting up the /etc/resolv.conf on the FreeBSD boxes
to match the one on the Mac OS X machine?
I will have to look at that. Mac is somewhat more complicated with name
resolution, or can be (from experience)*. I have not
looked at resolv.conf on that machine in a while. There was a file on
Linux and Unix like machines, nsswitch.conf or something,
that would tell the system how to go about looking up addresses. It was
a list of things to try like file(hosts file), dns, etc. and I have
forgotten the name because it has been too long since I looked at one
of those.
* I just looked at it and besides the line 'search sbcglobal.net' the
nameserver list is in a different order, with the isp's servers
coming first.
I remember looking at this that Mac OS is simplest to look up information
for using the graphical network information tool in system preferences. If
you're using DHCP, of course, it might be a little trickier, but you sound
like a static kind of person.
It's also possible it's your route tables. But tell me first if you've
got a small home router that you're connecting everything via.
The only router is the ADSL modem/router. All of the machines are
multihomed. The ones that connect to the internet directly
have static ip assigned.
Is that from your service provider, or does the router use DHCP to share out
its connection?
These are the only network traffic the modem
deals with. The inside network has a few switches and
that is it.
I do not have any of the machines specifically set to route from one
interface/address to another. The only connections are
processes like Apache that listen to all connected interfaces. None of
those are set to proxy traffic. I believe ftpd would listen
on all connected interfaces also. Ftp is a little troubling to me
because there does not seem to be nearly as much info about
it as, say, Apache. I would think that there would be a more
substantial configuration file for it. It would be nice to be able to
specify, and limit which interfaces and network address to listen to
and send and receive from. As it is, I take care of that with
tcpwrappers.
Thanks for the response:
Jeff K
So, what I'm understanding is this:
you have several machines. One is a Mac box that works perfectly. The rest
are FreeBSD boxes that don't work perfectly.
The way they don't work perfectly is that they're not resolving DNS
correctly. Other network services work fine, you can ping out by IP address
etc, just not DNS.
You have either several IP addresses from your ISP, or you have one IP
address at your router/modem, and it is performing NAT/DHCP to handle
transforming your network connection to a shared connection from several
machines.
I just want to get a clear idea in my head of the picture of this thing so
that I understand the problem :)
If your router is performing DHCP/NAT, turn one of your FreeBSD boxes onto
DHCP, copy down it's resolv.conf, configure it statically again and set up
all the boxes correctly.
If doing that doesn't resolve things, you may need to know the first step of
your network. Which in your case is probably the private address of the
modem from your ISP. In the case of statically addressing things, I've
always, *always* had to add a line like:
defaultrouter=192.168.1.1
to my /etc/rc.conf
This strikes me as possibly the problem, in fact. If everything else is
switched up, the switches could be allowing internal traffic
