<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 31, 2008 2:09 PM, Kevin Kempter <<a href="mailto:kevin@kevinkempterllc.com">kevin@kevinkempterllc.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi List; I've installed Fedora 8 on 2 of my home servers. I want to specify an I.P. address so I did this. Running KDE, went to K-Menu --> Administration --> Network entered the root passwd In the Network Config tool I clicked on edit and I see that the "Automatically obtain IP address via dhcp" is checked. If I run an ifconfig I get this: $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:D7:71:44 inet addr:<a href="http://192.168.1.4" target="_blank">192.168.1.4</a> Bcast:<a href="http://192.168.1.255" target="_blank">192.168.1.255</a> Mask:<a href="http://255.255.255.0" target="_blank">255.255.255.0</a> inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fed7:7144/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1250431 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:726057 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1762907258 (1.6 GiB) TX bytes:49097625 (46.8 MiB) Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa000 I have a firewall which has the IP <a href="http://192.168.1.1" target="_blank">192.168.1.1</a> and it's setup as my dhcp server. If I log into the firewall and see the LAN settings I see this: Name: Device Name: ixp1 Status: Connected Network: LAN Connection Type: Ethernet MAC Address: 00:c0:49:f4:32:b6 IP Address: <a href="http://192.168.1.1" target="_blank">192.168.1.1</a> Subnet Mask: <a href="http://255.255.255.0" target="_blank">255.255.255.0</a> IP Address Distribution: DHCP Server Received Packets: 4873480 Sent Packets: 6792793 So, I did the following: 1) clicked the Statically set IP address button and entered the following: -- Address: <a href="http://192.168.1.71" target="_blank">192.168.1.71</a> -- Subnet Mask: <a href="http://255.255.255.0" target="_blank">255.255.255.0</a> -- Default Gateway: <a href="http://192.168.1.1" target="_blank">192.168.1.1</a> 2) Exit the network config tool and save my changes 3) restart the network: /etc/init.d/network restart Now if I run ifup, then look at the output of ifconfig I see this: # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:D7:71:44 inet addr:<a href="http://192.168.1.71" target="_blank">192.168.1.71</a> Bcast:<a href="http://192.168.1.255" target="_blank">192.168.1.255</a> Mask:<a href="http://255.255.255.0" target="_blank">255.255.255.0</a> inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fed7:7144/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1562719 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:916632 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2178981981 (2.0 GiB) TX bytes:62483658 (59.5 MiB) Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa000 At this point I can ssh/scp to/from the server via <a href="http://192.168.1.71" target="_blank">192.168.1.71</a> however I cannot get anywhere on the web. If I try and ping google I get this: # ping <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">www.google.com</a> ping: unknown host <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">www.google.com</a> Now if I change the settings back to automatically get an IP via dhcp, and restart the network then I can ping <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">www.google.com</a> and get a reply. What am I doing wrong here? </blockquote><div>Sounds like DNS issue. Statically set the DNS to the same IP as your default gateway or manually enter the actual ip of the DNS servers. I prefer the first option so you don't have to worry about updating dns entries unless you have some reason to use specific dns servers. -Max </div></div>