Don't forget to add the options: dns-nameservers dns-search
Otherwise you may not be able to resolve DNS. Doug On Oct 26, 2014 8:26 AM, "Dotan Cohen" <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to ensure that a particular machine has a static IP address. Is > this the right way to configure /etc/network/interfaces? > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 10.0.0.7 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 10.0.0.138 > > The current configuration, using DHCP looks like this: > $ ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 90:2b:34:a9:c5:ae > inet addr:10.0.0.7 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::922b:34ff:fea9:c5ae/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:190131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:142571 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:130422046 (130.4 MB) TX bytes:28887979 (28.8 MB) > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 > RX packets:13281 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:13281 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:1351192 (1.3 MB) TX bytes:1351192 (1.3 MB) > > $ route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > Iface > 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.138 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 > eth0 > 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 > eth0 > > > I'm asking here as I don't want to get into a situation where I can no > longer communicate with the machine while testing different > configurations. Thanks. > > I took the basic config skeleton from the Ubuntu server guide Network > Configuration page: > https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/network-configuration.html > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam >
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