On Friday 12 May 2006 08:46, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 12 May 2006 07:27, "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > about '[gentoo-user] static ip wont connect but dhcp will': > > I have my connection set to get an ip using dhcp and this works. > > However if I try to use a static ip, by setting it in /etc/conf.d/net, > > it doesn't work, even if I try the ip I have been given by the dhcp > > server. > > When I run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start I get green oks for everything, > > but trying to ping www.gentoo.org I get the following error, > > immediately: ping: unknown host www.gentoo.org > > > > Any clues as to what's up? > > Can you ping by ip address outside the network? Try pinging these > addresses -- they are various google servers near me: > 64.233.167.104 > 64.233.167.147 > 64.233.167.99 > > Your problem sounds like not having a valid /etc/resolv.conf, which a part > of the process in resolving names to ip addresses. > > DHCP clients will often write this file based on the information received > from the DHCP server, but they often save the old version and put it back > into place when they shut down.
Sorted :-) It was the DNS settings in resolv.conf. I knew it had to be something simple. I couldn't see for looking! Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
