Using VMWare Workstation on a Centos 5.3 host I have a freshly
installed version of Open Solaris (OS) 2008.11 running as a virtual
guest with a bridged network.  I have manually configured OS to use a
static IP on my LAN and have entered two DNS server addresses.

Also on the host I run a Windows XP guest which uses dhcp on a bridged
network from the host.

The Windows guest works fine, but OS doesn't:.  I can get no access to
the external internet (but I can communicate between the OS host and
the rest of my *NIX hosts).  I can ping specific external IP addresses
but I'm not getting name resolution from the external DNS servers.  If
I change back to dhcp I can get the external world, but I want the
static IP so I can use my normal methods of ssh to communicate between
all my *NIX hosts.

Any ideas? Is there any way to get dhcp for DNS while retaining the static IP?

Thanks for any help.

-Tom

Tom Browder
Niceville, Florida
USA
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