Re: dhcp - internet

From: Markus Komosinski (komosinski_at_web.de)
Date: 07/26/03 

Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:34:56 +0200

Thanks,
i will try to fix the problem as you explained.
Next time I will include the exact error message.
Thanks for your help.

Markus

"Tony Curtis" <tony_curtis32@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:87n0fqlyoi.fsf@limey.hpcc.uh.edu...
> >> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:52:05 +0200,
> >> "Markus Komosinski" <komosinski@web.de> said:
>
> > my ultra 5 gets the ip adress from a hardware router. i
> > can ping every workstation on the private network, but i
> > can not use the internet with netscape 7. where could i
> > find / solve the problem?
>
> [ I'm assuming here that the router is acting as a DHCP
> server for the internal network. ]
>
> Your Sun machine needs to be set up to point at a suitable
> DNS server (resolv.conf) and to use "dns" for host
> resolution (nsswitch.conf).
>
> See the first 2 questions in this section of the Solaris
> FAQ:
>
> http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html#q4
>
>
> Your router also needs to be able to do NAT for the
> machines behind it.
>
> "can not use the internet" is too vague, by the way. You
> really need to include the exact text of error messages
> you get.
>
> hth
> t