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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!nntp.uio.no!news.kth.se!news From: tomasg@sec11.dsv.su.se (Tomas Gustavsson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help finding my web server!!! Date: 2 Jul 1996 07:43:54 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4rajvq$4tp@news.kth.se> References: <31D88009.52EF@ns.hondunet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sec11.dsv.su.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 In article <31D88009.52EF@ns.hondunet.net>, "Samuel E. Romero" <sromero@ns.hondunet.net> writes: >I've setup a FreeBSD 2.0 box and have to PC's connected to it through >ethernet cards, when I do a "ping pc1" or "ping pc2" from the unix >machine it works, when I do a ping from PC1 or PC2 to HOST it works, but >when I do a ping www.xx.xx from PC1 or PC2 timeout error occurs. I >added a ifconfig lo0 alias www on the configuration (sysconfig) and when >i do a ping www on a unix screen it works, how can I access my web >server in the unix machine from the PC's?? For the PCs to be able to find a fully qualified hostname over the network you either: Have to setup a DNS server (nameserver) using for exmaple BIND on the FreeBSD can. or Manually define the hostname www.xx.xx in the pc's hosts file. If the setup won't be bigger than what you describe it is probably easiest just to add the entry into the PC's hostfile, but if you wanät some other people to access your WWW server you must set up your DNS server. Regards, Tomas Gustavsson Computer Security Technologies CST AB Email: tomasg@cost.se Tel: +46 8 16 17 01 Fax: +46 8 471 77 22