ping: unknown host in local intranet - HELP
I have 2 computers with RH9
One is a gateway And I am trying to set the other computer as the DNS server. My first priorty is to setup the DNS SERVER as a local DNS server. --------------------------- GATEWAY Information --------------------------- IP - 192.168.0.1 Hostname - gw.myintranet.local Iptables enabled and all policies are ACCEPT resolv.conf in GATEWAY: (not sure if this is important) search ns.myintranet.local nameserver 192.168.0.2 hosts.conf in GATEWAY: (not sure if this is important) 127.0.0.1 localhost.localadmin localhost ---------------------------- DNS SERVER information ---------------------------- IP - 192.168.0.2 Hostname - ns.myintranet.local resolv.conf in DNS SERVER: search ns.myintranet.local nameserver 192.168.0.2 hosts.conf in DNS SERVER: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localadmin localhost 192.168.0.2 ns.myintranet.local ns I am able to ping from both computers to each other using the ip address. But I want to be able to ping FROM the GATEWAY TO the DNS SERVER using the name ns.myintranet.local Currently "ping ns.myintranet.local" in GATEWAY gives me ping: unknown host ns.myintranet.local Please help. (Adding 192.168.0.2 ns.myintranet.local ns in hosts file in GATEWAY solves the problem, but that is like duplicating the hosts information everywhere, which i want to avoid.) |
the basic logic there basically makes sense, however as you've not mentioned it at all i'm left wondering if you've actually installed a dns server at all? if you want a machine to act as a DNS server, then it kinda needs DNS serving software on it...
personally i'd recommend using http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq |
Hi acid_kewpie
DNS SERVER is running named. ps -aux|grep "named" returns the fllowing named 3246 0.0 0.8 29708 1088 ? S 08:05 0:00 [named] root 4144 0.0 0.0 172 16 pts/1 R 11:59 0:00 grep named So I believe dns (named) is running. So why am i getting unknown host error? |
the next stage would be because you've not configured it correctly. but as you've not told us what the config is i couldn't tell you...
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