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Introducing DHCP
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Host name lookup failure |
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2003-04-22 20:17:41 |
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anonymous2
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Greetings. Enjoyed the DHCP article.
Running FreeBSD 4.6.
I looked at my /var/db/dhclient.leases file and saw that I have (what looks like) a valid lease. I can ping IP addresses all day and I get a response. But when I try to ping "yahoo.com" or "google.com" I get "ping: cannot resolve yahoo.com: host name lookup failure."
I can see in the leases file that the correct domain name server addresses are being picked up but there seems to be a disconnect somewhere. Also, I do NOT have an /etc/resolv.conf file but don't know why I'd need to create one if I'm using DHCP.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jeff
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Host name lookup failure
2003-12-15 18:04:31
anonymous2
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option domain-name-servers #.#.#.#, #.#.#.#;
1) make sure that the dns declaration in the dhcp lease is spelt correctly (i.e. is plural.)
Also you can test the dns server itself:
2) this will work if the dns server is working:
-> dnsquery -n #.#.#.# www.yahoo.com
#[replace #.#.#.# with the dns server given]
#also try dig ( dig(0) )