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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!rwatson From: rwatson@clark.net (Robert Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: slip DNS Date: 21 Jun 1995 23:18:39 GMT Organization: The Star-Lit BBS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3sa9cf$m5c@clarknet.clark.net> References: <3s0ht6$svc@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dan Dartman (uffda@cs.montana.edu) wrote: : I have slip working, except I can't seem to ftp any site using it's name. : I have to use the actual IP address. I can't add routes unless I use : the IP number. Any idea whats wrong, thanks. Try modifying your /etc/resolv.conf -- there should be (at least, when you're done) a line that looks something like this.. nameserver ipaddress where ipaddress is the ip address of a name server -- usually with slip, this is the ip of your ISP's DNS server. If you're really stuck, use UUNet's DNS, although you'll get a little more delay on loading as the route is longer, and the DNS server's at UUNet are pretty stressed.. ;). I believe currently 198.6.1.1 is the uunet dns cache server, and should work nicely. You can also add domains to search automatically (so you could do telnet gaea instead of telnet gaea.nchgr.nih.gov if you've added nchgr.nih.gov to your search path.) man resolv.conf, I think. -- Robert Watson rwatson@sidwell.edu http://www.sidwell.edu/~rwatson/ The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.