Thread: Not able to browse internet

Dear Friends,
I configured the static ip on linux system...i am not able to ping to gateway and shows the error dns server is not responding...very rarely and after a long time it pings to gateway and also to dns....but still it show the error as dns server is not responding.....hope some one will give the solution how to make work in linux system using the static ip.--

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

put these directives and and change the values according to urs ips

IPADDR=192.168.1.3
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
ONBOOT=yes
USRCTL=yes
MAC=put ur mac address here
save ad exit the file
and now vi /etc/resolve.conf

put urs isp"s dns server like this

search broadband.vsnl.com

nameserver 202.54.15.30
nameserver 202.197.29.5

save and exit the file then

service network restart

i hope it shold work now

also check if selinux or firewall are enabled or not
also u may flush the iptables -F rules