We are getting back into hand-holding territory here, this must be mentioned in "setting up networking" tutorials.
Your issue may be the value in /etc/resolv.conf As a example, mine looks like this: # cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 192.168.0.1 You might want to use "ipconfig" to verify that your network card is "em0", I didn't how how Sascha knew that. John On 4/4/2014 13:00, Ludo Beckers wrote: > I added it to the end of rc.conf (btw emZERO, correct?) and then did > ping avalon.dragonflybsd.org <http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org> > and got Host name lookup failure. > > Ludo > www.potingue.be <http://www.potingue.be> > > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Sascha Wildner <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:42:00 +0200, Ludo Beckers <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > It clearly shows I hadn't a clue what I was doing when trying to > set up the > network. > Is there something I should retry with the CD first, or > otherwise can > someone send me the link for the right documentation (Network > for Dummies?) > please? > > > Try putting ifconfig_em0="DHCP" into /etc/rc.conf (assuming you > configured an Intel card in the guest) > >
