VM, resolving names

[Christoph Harder]

Hello,

I did see this in the documentation, but what domain should I specify?
Can I just use something arbitrary?

-Christoph

On 05.08.2014 20:28, Zachary Crownover wrote:
> You have no domain or search specified.
>
> domain example.com
> search subdomain.example.com
> nameserver X.X.X.X
> nameserver X.X.X.X
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> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Christoph Harder <shadowomf at arcor.de>
> wrote:
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>> Good evening everybody,
>>
>> I did wanted to test drive Dragonfly BSD a bit, but I'm somehow stuck.
>>
>> I create a virtual machine with VMware and installed Dragonfly but I can't
>> get networking to work properly.
>> The adapter seems to work fine, I can ping various IP's. However when I
>> try to ping a host by name it doesn't work.
>>
>> In the resolv.conf I did enter the following lines:
>> nameserver 192.168.178.1
>> nameserver 217.237.262.51
>> nameserver 217.237.149.205
>> Whereas the former one is my router (Fritz!Box 7362 SL) and the later ones
>> are the name servers of my provider (if I'm not totally mistaken).
>>
>> In the rc.conf I did enter the following network settings:
>> hostname="dragonfly"    (I'm a creative genius)
>> ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.178.202 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>> defaultrouter="192.168.178.1"
>>
>> The network is set to bridged mode in the VM settings and my router does
>> list the VM as new device.
>>
>> Now my router is set to dual stack mode (IPv4/IPv6). At the moment I'm
>> using static IP's for IPv4 and dynamic ones (DHCP) for IPv6.
>> In the beginning (after installation) there was a line ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
>> but it didn't work for me (I know horrible error description), so I did
>> switch to the static address.
>>
>> Now this isn't a high priority, but it would be great if you have any
>> hints to where my mistake might be or what I could have probably forgotten.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Christoph Harder
>>
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