[geeks] Sol8 networking woes

[Keith Campbell]

> Am I just especially bad at finding information online, because I seem
to have
> to ask a huge number of questions when it comes to getting used to new
OSs.
>
> Anyway, on my Solaris 8 machine, I set the gateway.  At this point I
can
> connect (telnet, ftp) to local machines (in the same netblock).  I can
ping
> other machines (like sunhelp.org or epix.net), but I can't connect via
telnet,
> ftp, or http to them.  Other machines in the same network have no
trouble
> making those connections though.  Any guesses as to why the problem?
This
> is reaking havoc with trying to use pkg-get to install software on the
> machine, not to mention would render it pretty much useless as a
colocated
> machine (were I stupid enough to ship it this way).

Did you set up your /etc/resolv.conf file?
Did you add 'dns' to the 'hosts' line in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file?