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MarcusXP
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 Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:54 pm Post subject: dnsmasq issues -- not resolving all hostnames |
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Hi guys,
I set-up dnsmasq on a Gentoo VM for a small network in our office.
It is serving as DHCP server and (hopefully) as DNS server (which is not working properly at the moment).
Windows hosts do not resolve any hosts.
On the box where dnsmasq is installed (and another Gentoo box that I've tried from), it is resolving *some* of the hosts, but not all.
/etc/dnsmasq.conf
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interface=eth0
dhcp-range=192.168.32.10,192.168.35.254,255.255.252.0,24h
dhcp-option=3,192.168.32.1
dhcp-option=6,192.168.32.2
#dhcp-option=6,192.168.32.2,172.16.136.10,172.16.136.13
conf-file=/etc/dnsmasq.conf.static
no-hosts
addn-hosts=/etc/dnsmasq.conf.hosts |
Some of the hosts being resolved are found in /etc/dnsmasq.conf.static (where I defined the static DHCP host assignment) - but as I said, not all of those hosts are being resolved.
I tried defining some hosts in /etc/hosts and /etc/dnsmasq.conf.hosts but they are not being recognized.
Any advices?
thank you very much! |
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MarcusXP
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| Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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I get some inconsistent results, for example:
Gentoo box running dnsmasq cannot resolve (ping) hostname "agent-td1" nor "esxi-32-185":
| Code: | AT-QA-DHCP ~ # ping agent-td1
ping: unknown host agent-td1
AT-QA-DHCP ~ # ping esxi-32-185
ping: unknown host esxi-32-185
AT-QA-DHCP ~ # |
Another Gentoo box can ping second hostname but not first one.. and both are located in the dhcp.conf.static file on the DHCP server.
| Code: | AT-QA-Stor ~ # ping agent-td1
ping: unknown host agent-td1
AT-QA-Stor ~ # ping esxi-32-185
PING esxi-32-185 (192.168.32.185) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ESXi-32-185 (192.168.32.185): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.691 ms
64 bytes from ESXi-32-185 (192.168.32.185): icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.185 ms
64 bytes from ESXi-32-185 (192.168.32.185): icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=0.186 ms
^C
--- esxi-32-185 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.185/0.354/0.691/0.238 ms
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From a Windows machine:
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C:\Users\Administrator>ping agent-td1
Pinging agent-td1 [192.168.32.146] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.32.146: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.32.146: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Ping statistics for 192.168.32.146:
Packets: Sent = 2, Received = 2, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
Control-C
^C
C:\Users\Administrator>ping esxi-32-185
Ping request could not find host esxi-32-185. Please check the name and try again. |
Moreover, from the Windows box, the "nslookup" command can resolve the name, but if I ping the name, it is not resolved... WHY IS THAT ?!
| Code: | C:\Users\Administrator>nslookup esxi-32-185
Server: AT-QA-DHCP
Address: 192.168.32.2
Name: esxi-32-185
Address: 192.168.32.185 |
I'm puzzled... |
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MarcusXP
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| Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| is there anyone that can help please? |
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your_WooDness
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Joined: 25 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:18 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
you should check the /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf files of the DNS clients. Best would be that /etc/hosts only contains entries for localhost, /etc/resolv.conf should be same everywhere or better should be written by dhcp client. But check if there are search pathes added.
Another file that affects name lookups is /etc/nsswitch, which should have the following hosts entry
/etc/dnsmasq.conf.hosts should contain the fqdn and short names for the hosts.
If you DNS query fails, please do a reverse lookup as well: nslookup <ip-address>
w00d |
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