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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!oleane!francenet.fr!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS not using domain name-Help Date: 4 Jun 1996 10:00:16 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4p11fg$5uk@sidhe.hsc.fr> References: <4p09dr$rrk@nntp1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] In article <4p09dr$rrk@nntp1.best.com>, InterLoc Solutions, Inc. <robert@iloc.com> wrote: > recognized anywhere. From a Windows NT client, for instance, I can > telnet to the FreeBSD box by using its IP address (10.0.0.1), but not > its domain name (for argument sake, xyz.com). It's running on a > 486DX2/66 VLB system with a 3Com 3C509-Combo ISA adapter, though I > think this is irrelevant. > > When I login as root (I know it's bad form) and enter 'nslookup', it > returns the following error: > *** Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.1: Server failed > *** Default servers are not available Either install a name server somewhere in your domain and setup the FreeBSD machine to use it (or itself if you're running named on it) or populate /etc/hosts on the machine and tell the resolver not to use named. /etc/host.conf: ------------------------------------------------------------ hosts ------------------------------------------------------------ If there is bind somewhere in host.conf, wipe it out. > My FreeBSD server is being setup to have Windows 3.x, NT and 95, and > Macintosh clients. Thanks in advance for any help. Please send > responses to: robert@iloc.com If you want to provide name services for your machines but are not connected to the Internet, it will be a little more difficult. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-