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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: I can only ping the gateway
Date: 4 Jun 94 05:52:52
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In-reply-to: dallas@chinook.halcyon.com's message of 2 Jun 1994 00:03:11 GMT

In article <2sj7jv$dem@nwfocus.wa.com> dallas@chinook.halcyon.com (Dallas R. Stafford) writes:

   My file resolv.conf lists a valid nameserver but I cannot ping outside
   the gateway.  what files are important to the nameserver with only
   one gateway??

   any help will be greatly appreciated.

Have your got a `domain mydomain' line in resolv.conf ?  Is your netmask too
small (making all requests drop the bit of the address that's masked) ?
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>

Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....