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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS not using domain name-Help Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 04:35:12 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 28 Message-ID: <31B570F0.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <4p09dr$rrk@nntp1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: robert@iloc.com InterLoc Solutions, Inc. wrote: > > I've installed and reinstalled FreeBSD 2.1 from the Walnut Creek CD > numerous times, and I can't get it so that the domain name is > recognized anywhere. From a Windows NT client, for instance, I can > ... > When I try to telnet to the domain by entering, 'telnet xyz.com', it > returns the following error: > > At someone's prompting, I tried going to the /var/yp directory and > entering 'make'. This resulted in the following error: > .. Uh, you're clearly flailing here.. :-) Wrong IP addresses, wrong names, wrong pointer to NIS, wrong named setup, I could go into details but I don't think there'd be much point. What you really need at this stage is a good book on UNIX system administration, one on simple networking (so you find out things like why "xyz.com" is not a valid name) and one on DNS and BIND so you can see how to set up a private network with named (something I'm assuming since the 10.x.x.x addresses are private, not actual Internet addresses). Good luck! -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project