static ip no internet

Question

So I followed these steps to get static ip and lost connection

sudo -s
nano /etc/network/interfaces

changed

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

to same as above with

auto eth-d
iface eth0 inet static
address etc

then reset networking

Answer 1

Your file is misconfigured, try something like this:

auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
        address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(enter your ip here)
        netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(enter gateway ip here,usually the address of the router)
        DNS xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Then:

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