Marty Felker wrote:
Stephen:Thanks so much for answer in such a timely manner. Yes to both queries. I can ping the other machine (my wife's). Since this thread is on Gmail I can access it anyware. At the moment I am working with Slackware 11. Then I must feed our 6 horses and discuss our house/farm with my wife. Too bad "reality" gets in the way <grin>. Marty Yes to both queries.
So, yes you have routing set up correctly, and yes you can access other sites by IP address. That means you have a problem with the way your DNS is set up. DNS setup requires two files, the /etc/resolv.conf and the /etc/nsswitch.conf (unless you are using DHCP, but that's a much more difficult story, so let's stick with the simple for now). If you have a linux box, you already know about /etc/resolv.conf, you need to have a domain (or search) line, and one or more nameserver lines, for example: domain int.unixsa.net nameserver 192.168.21.254 nameserver 192.168.21.1 Then, you need to have /etc/nsswitch.conf set so that host lookups use DNS, so make sure this line is in the file: hosts: local dns -spp _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
