Am I being really stupid here? Static IP Issue, please help.

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Hi All,

Having a slight issue,

under Network Configuration - > Network Interfaces -> I have set the following.

NOTE, I have a static IP address issued by my ISP, for argument sake, 1.1.1.1 the Virtualmin server has been assigned a static IP by my router of 192.168.0.117, (192.168.0.117 will probably be set as the DMZ or i’ll set all relevent port forwarding for the DNS, HTTP, etc etc)

Ok, so in the network Interfaces setup, I have set the IPv4 address to static and set it to 192.168.0.117, netmask to 255.255.255.0 and Broadcast is set to 192.168.0.1 (The ip address of my router)
I have saved and applied it and activated it. The error i get regarding not ready to use virtualmin has now gone, I can access the virtualmin, but it cannot access the web, IE, I cannot install scripts or update as it cannot resolve the host names.

Am I missing something really obvious? am I a complete idiot?

Thanks in advance

James

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broadcast will be 192.168.0.255

gateway will be 192.168.0.1

This should work

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.117
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
network 192.168.0.0
dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1 8.8.8.8
gateway 192.168.0.1