Weird DNS and GATEWAY IP Address

Question

iPad 1 and iPad 2, join wireless network, pulls 192.168.1.199 for a DNS and GATEWAY address, force a STATIC (manual) of 192.168.1.1 works, revert back to DHCP, keeps 192.168.1.1 until offsite and attempt to reconnect.
Tried Renew Lease, still pulls 192.168.1.199, have to always force 1.1 and revert back to DHCP afterwards.
Router has static IP (Cablevision), 255.255.255.248 Subnet with OPEN-DNS (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220) Even if I use Cablevision, Google, Verizon DNS, always pulls a 1.199 IP for GW and DNS.
Tried 3 different routers, still weird.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I�ve recently installed Solaris v10 X86 and have two
questions. The system is a Dell E521 with 4GB RAM
and 1GB SysKonnect NIC, and internet is provided via
a cable modem, that�s plugged into a Netgear router,
and the Solaris 10 box is plugged into the Netgear
router via a CAT5 ethernet cable.
1. I can connect to my router login page using the
following URL:
http://192.168.1.1/start.htm and I can also connect
to various web pages such as yahoo, if I first "ping
yahoo.com" (on another machine that�s internet
enabled) and then plug the web site�s ip address into
the Solaris/Mozilla browser. So it appears that I
haven�t been successful at pointing the Solaris x86
at a DNS server to resolve the DNS name.You can either copy nsswitch.dns to nsswitch.conf, or you can modify nsswitch.conf so that 'dns' is used for hostname lookups.
2. I've purchased a commercially available software
package and it requires a static ip address for this
Solaris x86 server. If the ip address changes, it�ll
stop working by design and require that I reacquire
the license file. When connecting through this
Netgear router, how do I lock this Solaris v10 x86
server into a specific ip address? (the ip address
floats presently when cycling my PC�s on/off)
presently, and assume the Solaris box will too,
usually through an ip range of 192.168.1.<1 through
5>One method is setting the router so that the server's MAC address is tied to a specific IP.
Otherwise you can edit /etc/hostname.<interface> and place a static address there, forgoing DHCP services from the router. You may want the address to appear outside the router's DHCP range.
Darren