I am trying to setup a static IP address for my servers. At this point, I have that configured properly, but I am unable to setup the DNS servers that I was given by my ISP. I can't run any updates because of this. It can't resolve the lookups. Any ideas of how to fix this? I am running Debian Lenny. Code: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface # allow-hotplug eth0 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 208.33.73.159 netmask 255.255.255.192 gateway 208.33.73.129 I tried putting them in the /etc/resolv.conf file, but nothing changed. Code: nameserver 63.165.191.2 nameserver 205.162.170.4 Thanks for the help in advance.
I can ping addresses and get returns. I just can't use any names because they are not being translated to the numbers for me.
Can you oing the IP addresses of the nameservers? Do you run a firewall that might block dns requests? You can also try to use other public dns servers like the ones from google: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/
I am not running a firewall at this time. I plugged straight into the port. Now, I can't ping anything from that machine, but I can ping the machine from another machine and it works. Any ideas?
look here for pings from outside your country; http://www.just-ping.com/index.php?vh=208.33.73.159&c=&s=ping! my best guess is that you have this ip is protected by a firewall with Discard Ping function.
