Thanks for all the advice and help. I went to sleep after setting it without success ... and came back after work at it again - when I ping it works!! Maybe the lesson is to wait for the network stuff to sort things out and be patient?
Have set the forwarders commands to my actual DNS and the resolv.conf nameserver points to 172.18.0.1. My thanks to you all. Cheers >-----Original Message----- >From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com] >Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 03:58 PM >To: 'Sameer Verma' >Cc: tkk...@nurturingasia.com, 'XS Devel' >Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Server configuration for static IP instead of DHCP > >On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Sameer Verma<sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: >> Have you tried adding your ISP's DNS server(s) to the >> /etc/named-xs.conf file as forwarders? > >Yep! that's the 2 steps needed for a static IP address on eth0 > >- an ifcfg-eth0-local file as Rodolfo's example > >- upstream DNS servers set as forwarders > >Also, /etc/resolv.conf needs to be pointing to the DNS server on the >XS. Otherwise the local names (needed for ejabberd and other services) >will be missing (unless you configure the upstream DNS servers to >serve them but that is more complicated). > >cheers, > > >m >-- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
