* Michelle Knight (michelle at msknight.com) wrote: > I disable DHCP to give servers static IP so I always know where they > are. My home router doesn't allow me to define IP addresses to MAC > addresses, so static IP is the only way I can do it. > > However on 111b, if I use the GUI to assign a static IP, then even > though the network configuration screen knows the DNS servers, domain > name resolution stops working. > > If I switch the interface back to DHCP, then DNS starts working. Odd. > > I have noticed that if I try and select the default gateway in the > network configuration, it doesn't seem to stick. > > I'm waiting for 132 to come out as a fresh install, not development > version, and I'm hoping that this issue is solved.
That's unlikely to prove fruitful, unless you're actually running into a known bug (which sounds unlikely as I haven't seen/heard any widespread reports of problems switching from dynamic to static ip). I presume you've read/followed the following: http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolarisInfo200906/How+to+Manually+Configure+Network+Settings For your DNS issue, check to make sure that after saving your changes the file /etc/resolv.conf reflects what it should. You also want to check that /etc/nsswitch.conf has a hosts: line that looks like (at a minimum): hosts: files dns Hope that helps. Cheers, -- Glenn
