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simulacrum
Tux's lil' helper
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Location: St Paul, MN
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 Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject: LAN DNS ? |
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I have a Linksys router that provides not only DNS, but DNS for local machines, which is very convenient - if resolution worked right on my machine. Here's what I'm talking about:
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simulacrum ~ # host tombstone
tombstone has address 192.168.100.101
simulacrum ~ # ping tombstone
ping: unknown host tombstone
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My hosts file only has only the localhost line and my resolv.conf has only the router specified. What's the deal? I know I can explicitly specify the addresses in my hosts file, but I'd rather not do that. |
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dashnu
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Location: Casco Maine
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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take a look at /etc/conf.d/domainname and rc-update add domainname default /etc/init.d/domainname start
maybe ?
I always add the local name to the hosts file like so..
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192.168.1.1 hostname.mydomain.net hostname
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simulacrum
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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I have /etc/dnsdomainname configured and domainname is in my default runlevel, but how will having the domain name set affect resolving another machines IP?
I have up until this point had my machines defined in hosts, but as I said, I'd rather not do that. Thanks for any help though  |
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bone
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Joined: 07 Jun 2002
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Location: Midwest, USA
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:51 pm Post subject: Re: LAN DNS ? |
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| simulacrum wrote: | I have a Linksys router that provides not only DNS, but DNS for local machines, which is very convenient - if resolution worked right on my machine. Here's what I'm talking about:
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simulacrum ~ # host tombstone
tombstone has address 192.168.100.101
simulacrum ~ # ping tombstone
ping: unknown host tombstone
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My hosts file only has only the localhost line and my resolv.conf has only the router specified. What's the deal? I know I can explicitly specify the addresses in my hosts file, but I'd rather not do that. |
Its probably that your dns server doesnt know "tombstone", but I can almost bet it knows "tombstone.yourdomain". Check your /etc/resolv.conf. Mine has my default search domain as well, like this.
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option ndots:0
nameserver 127.0.0.1
domain xxxx.cx
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