Hi, I'm trying connect internet on my solaris 8 and failed. My resolv.conf is: 68.82.0.5 68.82.0.6 Both are DNS ip from my cable company. From DOS on my w2k pc, I type ipconfig /all and the output is C:\>ipconfig /all Windows 2000 IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : venus Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mixed IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : malvrn01.pa.comcast.net Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : malvrn01.pa.comcast.net Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI For Com plete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX) Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-01-02-71-97-D2 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.82.0.5 68.82.0.6 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, January 19, 2003 5:34:30 PM Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, January 22, 2003 5:34:30 PM Did I miss something?

Your /etc/resolv.conf file should look like ---------------8<-----cut here----8<---- domain pa.comcast.net nameserver 68.82.0.5 nameserver 68.82.0.6

David, Thanks for your reply. I edit the resolv.conf and the internet access still failed. Following are the defaultrouter, resolv.conf and netstat -r # more /etc/defaultrouter 192.168.1.1 # more /etc/resolv.conf domain pa.comcast.net nameserver 68.82.0.5 nameserver 68.82.0.6 # netstat -r Routing Table: IPv4 Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface -- --------- 192.168.1.0 aw90s U 1 1 elxl0 224.0.0.0 aw90s U 1 0 elxl0 default 192.168.1.1 UG 1 0 localhost localhost UH 2 6 lo0 # 192.168.1.1 is the linksys router ip. Please let me know if there are some problems in above setting. Thanks.

Hello, Have you determined the nature of the problem? It can be a physical network problem, a network configuration problem, a routing problem, a naming service configuration problem,... Can you ping your router using IP? If you can your local network seems to be OK. Can you ping the dns servers using IPs? If you can the routing to these servers seems to be ok. Can you ping any internet host using IP? If you can the default routing is OK. Can you find IPs using nslookup? If you can but you cannot ping any internet url, looks like you did not "instruct" solaris to use the apropiate dns naming service (CONSIDER THAT MANY INTERNET URLs FILTER ICMP TRAFFIC LIKE PING, SO IF YOU CANNOT PING TRY WITH SOME OTHER URLs). This is done with the file /etc/nsswitch.conf. You must edit it and modify the hosts entry to include dns too, and not only files. There is a templete called /etc/nsswitch.dns you can look at. Try to determine the cause of the error and weŽll try to help you. Bye, jmiturbe

check that /etc/nsswitch is also with a line hosts: files dns otherwise it will not check to your dns server

Excellent answers, I edit /etc/nsswitch.conf by adding dns after 'osts: files'. The problem solved. Thanks all.