Config problem - can't reach Internet

I am a NT guy but I will give it a shot (from the center )
A DNS is not working, it is not translating the domainnames to ip and therefor you are not able to connect.

Leopold

DNS is working properly if you can do nslookup www.pepsi.com. If you can ping the IP address you have connectivity through the firewall and all the routes are correct. If you can't ping www.pepsi.com perhaps DNS resolution is just too slow for youto get the IP back in time to finish the ping before it times out. Try traceroute www.pepsi.com. This should show you exactly where it fails. It should return names as will as IPs where the IPs are in reverse lookup. The goot thing about traceroute is it will also show you the time delays between each hop (router). You may need to use ndd to force your Solaris server to 100 Full Duplex or something. You should have someone in networking verify what the port on the switch/router you are connected to is set at first so you don't force to something that won't be accepted by the router and cause nothing to work for you.

Good luck.

You need to select an appropriate /etc/nsswitch.conf file (choose name services and usage order). There are several examples files in /etc, look for them with "ls /etc/nsswitch.*". Start with the most appropriate for your installation and edit individual lines using the comments as a guide. You have to reboot for the new selection to take effect.

Hi,
Verify these files:
- /etc/hosts
- /etc/resolv.conf
- /etc/defaultrouter
- /etc/defaultdomain
- /etc/nsswitch.conf

Try to ping your gateway hostname not ip address.

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