Hi all::: I have a cable model connect to my W2K machine via a router which also connect my other Intel Solaris 8 machine. I can ping my router and other outside website IP address. But when try to brows through Netescape it give following message. "Perhaps there is a problem with your name server? If your site must use a non-root name server, you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS envionment variable to point at the appropriate name server. It may (or may not) be necessary to set this variable, or the SOCKS host preference, to IP address of the host in question rather than its name" If anybody faced this problem and have solved please let me know what should do? OR Let me know the step to configure Netescape on intel solaris 8. thnx a lot -kb

Hi Do the following step by step to access internet .#cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf #vi /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts files dns :wq! #vi /etc/defaultrouter IP ADDRESS OF YOUR ROUTER/GATEWAY :wq! # vi /etc/resolv.conf nameserver ip address of DNS server :wq! # pkill -HUP in.named # pkill -HUP inetd # sync # netscape & if you are not able to browse then plase restart the machine # init 6 Thanks suk

How to find the nameserver ip address of DNS server? I unable to understand this line thnx -karunesh

Your ISP should have the information on their site or should have given you at lelast 2 IP addresses for DNS servers. eg: if you got 10.20.30.40 and 20.30.40.50 as your DNS addresses from your ISP, the /etc/resolv.conf should be edited to: nameserver 10.20.30.40 nameserver 20.30.40.50 It's just the equivalent of filling out the primary and secondary DNS in windows TCP/IP settings. You can add more to this file if you wish. I tend to add a 3rd entry (not on my ISP's network) in case of a failure.