mike wrote:
> I got my wireless Intel Pro card connected to my AP router. I can ping my
> router, I can ping external ip addresses, I can also ftp to external
> addresses that I use and login and send and receive files with no problems.
> I can also traceroute ip addresses and it shows the route fine. (the first
> ip address that shows when I do traceroute is my Access Point (AP) router
> of 192.168.1.1)
>
> If I bring up the web browser and for the address if I type in
> 69.147.114.210 it will take me to yahoo.com main page, but if I type in the
> address www.yahoo.com, it says www.yahoo.com could not be found. Please
> check the name and try again. It's seems it isn't resolving the names, but
> ip address I can access just fine.
>
> I don't use a proxy or anything, just direct connection to the internet.
> My AP router is setup as WEP security is all. Obviously I am missing one
> setup step somewhere, but I can't find it yet going through the blogs and
> forums. I did put my router ip address in the /etc/defaultrouter and also
> in the /etc/resolv.conf file. Any ideas out there? I'm running Solaris
> 10. I'd appreciate any help given.
you have misconfigured your name service config.
Check that in /etc/nsswitch.conf the line for "hosts:" has
hosts: files dns
Check that you have the correct nameserver IP addresses
included in your /etc/resolv.conf
Then run
# svcadm restart name-service-cache dns/client
# host www.yahoo.com
James C. McPherson
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