akashj87

Hello,

I installed backtrack 3 on vmware in windows vista.

Vmware made two LAN , one with IP 192.168.0.1 and another with 192.168.179.1 in windows
In backtrack, i set the static IP to 192.168.0.2

I connection shared my dial up with the connection 192.168.0.1 in windows
Pinging from both sides working and i am able to see my website hosted in windows in backtrack, but i am not able to open any website like google.com in backtrack

Please help me out.

Thanks in advance

mingdao

No one answered in 50 days, so I can't hurt your thread, eh?

If backtrack is anything like Slackware, what do you have in /etc/resolv.conf?
That file should contain your ISP's DNS servers, or some other ones.

What do you get when you issue ping www dot google dot com in a terminal?
(Change the word dot to a . -- silly board thinks it's an URI.

Freston

I wonder if the OP is going to read this, or perhaps found a solution under his own power by now

But in theoretical terms, I thought this was a VMware related problem. Not my cup of tea. But now that you mention /etc/resolv.conf, yeah, it may very well be that the problem is the statically defined IP address.

With DHCP you get your IP address | subnet | gateway | DNS automagically (although once you've configured a DHCP server, there is nothing magic about it). If you just assign an IP to an interface, there's a lot the machine doesn't know. For it's subnet it falls back to a sane default, but what's it's gateway, what are it's DNS resolvers? If you don't set these manually, you'd get the behavior described by the OP.

Unknown host?

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