Can't see the ouside world

[jerehart]

Hey,

being the unlucky person of knowing the root password I get to set up a solaris box. I have been trying to place a solaris 7/5.7/2.7 box onto an internal LAN. I have the ip address, dns servers, gateway, and subnet but no matter what I try nothing works.

I have manually updated /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, and /etc/netmasks this didn't work.

I then tried to run /usr/sbin/sys-unconfig and reset the machine. I put in the numbers and still can't see anything.

doing a ifconfig -a lo0 and hme0 come back.
lo0 looks like the loop back
hme0 looks like my connection, my inet and netmask look like the values i put in but broadcast seems to be off one number.

i put in 198.27.18.254 it shows
198.27.18.255
also I don't have a fully qualified name, I call it sdsho
do I need sdsho.mycompany.com ?

trying an nslookup I get that it could not find the servers.
doing a traceroute on a PC I can see these servers. is there something I am missing?

 

[KenCunningham]

Not sure if this is relevant here, but what route have you added?

 

[Guest_imported]

Try this first :

# netstat -rn
.. check output of default route
got to /etc

# more defaultrouter

ip address or host name should be the router IP address/hostname

# ping IPaddressofrouter or hostnameofrouter

For resolver (DNS Problem)

# more /etc/resolver.conf
output should be IP or hostname of DNS Server

###LAST but not the least be sure that your IP address is allowed to browse the net