Is your ISP assigning you an IP address using DHCP? If so, they should be setting your DNS servers automatically as well. Something in your setup could be messed up and this may be why DHCP is not setting the DNS servers correctly. The first thing I would try is going to the help pages for your ISP and noting down their DNS servers. Once you have a note of the IP address of the DNS servers, add them to your /etc/resolv.conf file like this:
domain mydomain.com nameserver 123.123.123.123 nameserver 456.456.456.456 Obviously substituting the real IPs above. The 3 lines should be the only thing present in the file. Once you have done this, reboot and try both ping tests again. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org
