Re: getting static dns (was: Problem obtaining network lease automatically)

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:09:56PM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:
>On 8/22/06, Michael Rozdoba <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>Jeff: If what you want it for your DHCP server to always give you the
>same IP then you need to tell your DHCP server to always give the MAC
>of your Z's wifi card the same IP. You can't choose to use static and
>force the DHCP server to give you a certain IP. It doesn't and
>shouldn't work like that.

Ah. Now a little light-bubl goes off in my little newbie brain :?). I
didn't realize that udhcpc is the dhcp requester, correct? I was
having a problem but trying to fix it the wrong way.

Let's start over. Going back to my original post with my original
interfaces entry:

    iface eth0 inet static
        wireless_mode xxxxxxx
        wireless_essid xxxxxxx
        wireless_key xxxxxxxxxxx
        wireless_channel x
        gateway 10.0.0.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        address 10.0.0.199

I connect to my router just fine, obtaining the ip that I request. My
actual _problem_ (which I tried solving using udhcpc %^o) is that I'm
not getting proper dns. I can ping other boxes, both local & remote,
by ip but not by name. Now when using dhcp (as I now know I was
forcing it do do) I get assigned the dns servers properly from the
router, so what do I have to do to get them recognized statically?

Sorry for the newbie inspired confusion.

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