You probably haven't configured DNS on your computer (for a static IP address, DNS needs to be set up by editing the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf files).
Do you know the IP address of your DNS name server that you will be resolving domain names through? If you do, you can test if it's working using the "dig" command. Say, for example, that the IP address of the DNS server that you needed to do name queries on was 123.456.78.9, then you could type in something like this command: dig www.google.com +short @123.456.78.9 at the command line to see if you can resolve www.google.com to google's IP address using the name server at 123.456.78.9 Get it? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
