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Hi,

I am new to Solaris(migrating from Windows to Solaris).I have
installed Solaris 10 on my PC.
I have internet connection of VSNL(India) at my home.They have
provided me a router.
I have done full installation.Also all drivers necessary for
networking are installed properly.

I get dynamic IP address while connecting to internet.

I want to configure DNS. But, I don't know how to configure it.

My problem is ,I don't know what should I enter during configuration
of DNS.

For Name Service I selected DNS. On next screen it asked me domain
name.
What should be the domain name?Is it anything or my ISP's name or any
name derived from it?

On next screen it asks for Server address.Actually there is space for
three addresses.
What should I enter over there? Will my own IP address do?or my
router's IP address or some else?

On next screen DNS search list is to be provided.What is it?
What should I write over there exactly?

Please help me!

Thanking You!

Prashant Poman.

The domain name is the local domain name of your PC. Its not related to your ISP configuration. You can enter whatever you like or keep it blank. It will take from hostname.You only have one PC and most probably wont be using domains.

The search list is normally determined from the local domain name. If you put vsnl.com in search list then if you type "nslookup www" then it will search for 'www . vsnl . com' in DNS.

Just put the address of DNS servers that you got from VSNL in the /etc/resolv.conf file in following pattern

nameserver X.X.X.X
nameserver X.X.X.X
nameserver X.X.X.X

where X.X.X.X are the IP's of your DNS servers in descending preference line by line.