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From: Scott on 15 Jan 2010 17:14


On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:55:45 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
<lgusenet(a)be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

>comp.unix.bsd.freebsd is not widely propagated, so you won't
>necessarily get much help here (in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd).
>See http://www.freebsd.org/support.html for better ideas...
>[followups redirected accordingly]
>
>Scott
> <skaplan2167(a)yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> I just just Optimum Static IP installed and put a linksys router with
>> 2 machines, my windows pc and a pc with freebsd 8 installed When I
>> installed freebsd 8 I set up the network adapter card I'm able to get
>> out on the net with my windows pc and from my windows pc i'm able to
>> connect to the freebsd machine by ssh but the freebsd machine is
>> unable to get out on the internet I thought the problem was that the
>> installation left me with no /etc/resolve.conf file so I created a
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>You mean "resolv.conf"?
>
>
>> resolve.conf file with two nameserver lines plugging in the DNS
>> servers given to me by my isp After saving changes and restarting I
>> still cannot get the machine out on the net
>> ping yahoo.com results in ping: cannot resolve yahoo.com: Host name
>> lookup failure Can someone please help Thanks
>
>Well, it's still clearly a DNS failure. My guess would be that you
>spelled resolv.conf wrong in the filesystem as well as in your message,
>but if that's not the case try "dig yahoo.com" and see if that gives you
>a hint.

Yea that's what it was I had to rename resolve.conf to resolv.conf
Thanks
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