On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 02:09 AM, Andrew George wrote:
>
>> And here's the contents of my resolv.conf:
>>
>> search earthlink.net
>> nameserver 207.217.126.82
>> nameserver 207.217.77.81
>> nameserver 207.217.120.83
>>
>> The original problem is this. When the box is set to use DHCP, it can
>> resolve domains and surf the web just fine. When I manually assign it
>> an
>> IP and DNS servers it can't. It used to work just fine manually but
>> sometime this week it just stopped working for some reason. The manual
>> IP I use for this box is 192.168.0.2. I have already put my other comps
>> on this IP and they can use it just fine.
>>
>
> OK
> Sounds to me like its picking some info up off dhcp that is wrong in the
> static set-up
> try running ifconfig as both static connection and dhcp and see what the
> differences are
Here is ifconfig on the manual IP:
[root@Dreadnaught root]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:A8:F2:40:B1
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:8568 (8.3 Kb) TX bytes:12311 (12.0 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xbc00
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9660 (9.4 Kb) TX bytes:9660 (9.4 Kb)
The only difference between that and when its on DHCP is the IP itself,
on DHCP it chooses 192.168.0.6
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