[SunHELP] Unable to access internet from solaris 8 system...

marvc marvc at bellsouth.net
Tue Jun 10 14:37:02 CDT 2003


Yes. The defaultrouter files shows the IP of my router, but not its
FQDN. 

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Phil Stracchino
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Unable to access internet from solaris 8
system...


On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:24:31PM -0400, marvc wrote:
> Can someone assist me with a problem I'm having trying to get my ultra

> sparc to access the internet? I can ping all W2K, XP, & linux internal

> resources fine. I can also access my web pages fine as they reside on 
> a linux server that I'm hosting on my internal network. I can ping and

> do nslookup any external resources by name or IP. I'm assuming DNS is 
> working properly because of this. Can anyone give me some pointers on 
> where to look to resolve this? It's kinda frustrating to study for the

> cert without being able to access the internet.


Do you have an /etc/defaultrouter file?		...You should.

Does it contain your router's FQDN?		...It should.


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