hiii

i am using Advance server,, and was trying to conigure dns on it,,,
1.I made my ip static
2.configured DHCP
3.and then went to make dns,,
named.conf
reverse
forward

my domain name is server.redhat.com in etc/sysconfig/network

4.found no errors in forward and reverse file
5.i can dig server.redhat.com but cant ping it
6.when i do

host server.redhat.com

it doesnt show me any ip address

same in when i do the opposite

host 192.168.1.254(should show me the server name)
but not showing ,, saying server cant be reached,,,

i need to make this working ,,, appreciate ur help

thanks cheers
simran

can you ping the ip address?

yes i can ping the ip address of my server's machine

Are you actually using the DNS servers IP addresses in your /etc/resolv.conf?

Do i need to ? Doesnt it automatically resolves the dns name server in /etc/resolv.conf.. i guess thts the beauty of dns tht we dnt need to touch /etc/resolv.conf...

Yes you need to!

1)Your machine wants to resolve a name
2)It will ask your DNS server
3)If the DNS server is defined with its name, goto 2

"endless loop"

which means my entries will be somewhat like tht on my server,,

nameserver 202.56.16.5 <---- DNS IP
search server.redhat.com

is tht right?

Yes

About the search line:
your dns is only private I guess? (202.56.16.5 doesnt look like private space, prefer 192.168.x.x)
or are you the admin of redhat.com? Hello then ! =)
check
man resolv.conf
to be sure of the following (it's a long time since I didn't play the DNS admin)

Imagine you are on machine1.domain.com
If you do
ping machine2
it will first try to do a ping machine2.<domain.com>
if the dns resolution doesn't work, it will try
machine2.server.redhat.com and then
machine2.redhat.com

If you are authoritive (hum not sure this is english) of redhat.com it will answer.
Otherwise, it will go to redhat.com dns server! <-- not exactly true but that's the idea..