[indiana-discuss] Help with static IP address and link aggregation

[David Abrahams]

on Thu Jun 11 2009, Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy-AT-Sun.COM> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 09:56 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
>> > To get DNS to work without NWAM, populate your /etc/resolv.conf with
>> > appropriate values, 
>> 
>> Here's what it contains:
>> 
>> # cat /etc/resolv.conf 
>> domain luannocracy.com
>> # nameserver 192.168.188.1
>> nameserver 207.172.3.8
>> nameserver 207.172.3.9
>> nameserver 207.172.3.10
>> nameserver 207.172.3.11
>
> Looks good.
>
>> 
>> Interestingly, I can get it to succeed at doing nslookup, host, or dig
>> if I uncomment the first nameserver, which is my local router that
>> happens to forward to the nameservers shown in that list.  However,
>> traceroute fails without showing a single hop, and browsing the web is
>> hopeless.  I /can/ access addresses on my local subnet.
>
> That says to me that the problem isn't naming, but routing; you probably
> don't have a default route to get off of your local subnet.  What does
> "netstat -rn" say about the routes you have in your forwarding table?

As I told Fajar, I am starting afresh.  But that said, I *had* followed
the instructions in
http://bopl.samharris.us/2008/06/solaris-nwam-and-static-ips/ about
reconstructing a default route.

Aww, heck, what's one more reboot between friends?  I'll go back to
where I was and try it again...

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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