Hello all,
I am having a small network of about 2 linux machines and 3 windows machines. One of the LInux machine acts as a DHCP (ISC) server, Internet Router and DNS (tinydns from djbdns). I have setup the tinydns and it works fine. I have tested the linux machine(client) and am able to ping to all the local machines from the linux machine using ping host1.basic.net. But when I ping it from Windows XP, The following error occured:
I know this problem is not a linux specific problem, but since tinydns is serving the name resolution I posted it here.
When I ran ipconfig/all in windows, it shows the IP address of the local nameserver. and I can ping to this nameserver using the IP Address.
Another weird problem is that I can access internet from the windows machines through the machine which runs nameserver, dhcp server and IP routing.

Have anyone faced this problem before?
any thoughts ??

regards
libregeek.

In your windows machine, make the linux machine which has the tinydns as the name resolver.

The IP address of the nameserver is already in the windows machine. I can ping the nameserver from the windows machine also. But I can't ping it using hostname.

Modify C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file and add your mapping ipaddress/name mapping of your name resolver.

That's not what I require. If I add the hostnames to /etc/hosts then what is the use of a DNS ? It's very tedious to add each and every hostname/IP address to the /etc/hosts file. I wish to resolve the ip address using the dns server. It's possible to ping from linux machine? then why does this blunt windows don't respond?

This should be done on your windows machine.

I think sirkware is not convinced abt my problem. I can access the internet thru the windows machine. the only problem is that i can't get the local names resolved. If it was the problem of /etc/hosts in windows then probably I shouldn't able to ping www.google.com. Luckily this is possible . But when i ping a local machine it doesn't works

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I believe your problem is regarding windows configuration. You may be using tinydns but its still a windows configuration problem. Sorry I cant help about that.

My problem is solved.
The IP address of the windows machine is assigned through the DHCP server. I just tried to statically set an Ip address and point the namserver to it. Then it worked. So I dig some of the options of dhcpd.conf just played with the options for ddns-update-style. I changed ddns-update-style ad-hoc; to ddns-update-style interim; Then it worked. Now i am able to ping to all the hosts in the network.
Thanks to all of you who replied especially to sirkware.

regards
libregeek

I have a hard time getting djbdns to do what i want, sounds like you made it -

Can you share your data.cdb ?