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

On 8/23/06, GROG! (Jeff Howie) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>

Edit /etc/resolv.conf.

-- 
Justin Patrin

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