I'll try to detail as much as possible of my current setup. I have a Cisco E2500 Router running off of the Cable Modem set to 192.168.1.1 I have a Repeater Bridge Linksys WRT54G connected to the Cisco wirelessly, with the IP 192.168.1.2 IP range on the Cisco is 128 (192.168.1.100-192.168.1.128) My server is connected to the Linksys on IP 192.168.1.150 DHCP I tried to enable static IP with the following settings: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.150 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 then i run /etc/init.d/networking restart gives errors, but all is well, still connected. then I go to next step and edit hosts file to 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain local 192.168.1.150 myserver.mydomain.com save and exit then echo myserver.mydomain.com > /etc/hostname /etc/init.d/hostname restart all well hostname returns myserver.mydomain.com hostname -f returns myserver.mydomain.com apt-get update apt-get upgrade reboot Then configuring virtual network devices - Fail starting without full network config no network eth0 shows no IP and I get the error when using sudo "unable to resolve host myserver.mydomain.com Not Sure what I'm missing here...................... Thank you in advance to all the Guru's
SOLVED - maybe? I think I found the answer I installed CentOS bare minimum just to play with / view settings. Turns out since I'm behind a repeater simply adding the google public DNS didn't allow me to resolve within my network to the host router. By adding the local nameserver from the host router dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 75.75.75.75 It seemed to connect and stay connected. Also editing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 from DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=no to DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes Made it come back to life. Haven't attempted this in Ubuntu Server yet, but I'll report back
