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Old 08-17-2006
Netscape and Patching question
Hey guys,

I was able to get my NIC running and set it to DHCP... I can ping it....SSH....and Telnet to my Solaris 9 machine. But when im on the machine I can't get Netscape or the automatic patching software to connect. Is there some DNS things i need to set or something im a little stumped.

it tells me

Warning: the following hosts are unknown

home.netscape.com
home6.netscape.com
internic.net

this means some or all hosts will be unreachable.

Thanks...
Last edited by kingdbag; 08-17-2006 at 07:14 PM..
# 2  
Old 08-17-2006
What are the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf ? That's where DNS servers are listed, one IP address per line. DHCP software often automatically overwrites it.
# 3  
Old 08-18-2006
hmmmm i don't have that file at all in /etc ..... what should be in it? Can I use anyone who allows DNS? or does it have to be a DNS server on my network?
# 4  
Old 08-18-2006
domain xxxx.com
nameserver xx.xxx.0.5
nameserver xx.xxx.0.7
search xxxx.com

This is what I have in there now with real DNS info of course...I even rebooted the machine and im still getting the same errors in Netscape.
# 5  
Old 08-19-2006
What DHCP software are you using?
# 6  
Old 08-22-2006
Umm, I just ran ifconfig em0 dhcp so i guess im using whatever software comes with Solaris 9
# 7  
Old 08-22-2006
I think what Corona meant was what DHCP software is running in the DHCP server from which your Solaris box is getting its IP address.

Start from the beginning:
Remove everything from resolv.conf but the line nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Check that /etc/nsswitch.conf has a line like: **
hosts: files dns
Can you actually ping the DNS servers from the Solaris box?
What happens when you do an nslookup on any outside website by name, like www.internic.net?
Is there a proxy in your environment?

** I rarely work with DHCP in unix, so I'm not sure if you need nsswitch.conf whne using DHCP.
Last edited by System Shock; 08-22-2006 at 05:30 PM..
 
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