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Hello. I need some help configuring my network. I have the router's DNS set to 1.1.1.4 as the primary DNS server, and 208.67.222.222 as the secondary DNS server. My router's local IP Address is 1.1.1.1. I set all my clients to 1.1.1.1 as the DNS server. This means that for a client, if the local DNS server is working, it will use that as the DNS server, which specifies as it's primary external DNS server 208.67.222.222, which is OpenDNS. Otherwise, it will directly use OpenDNS. This works fine.
The problem is when I configure the server itself to that, I cannot seem to resolve the host names locally for some reason (ping fails). So I was messing around trying to get the address from DHCP, but use static DNS settings, and then I could ping from the server, however the network services, such as telnet and ntp would not work anymore. For telnet, for example, it would give the error that it could not resolve the host names. I'd directly used 1.1.1.4 as the DNS server when manually configuring, for both the primary and secondary servers. Then I'd said to search smiley000.net (my domain). I'd also manually configured the host name to c-des-main1-rec.smiley000.net.
How do I somehow get it set to values where the network services work and I can ping everything?
1- what distribution?
2- your DNS resolution works on the router, or does not?
3- your client is using dhcp or static?
4- show me output of 'ip addr show all' on client
5- you are trying to use resolv.conf?
My distribution is Mandriva Linux 2010.1. My DNS resolution works from the router and from the clients. The clients are all using DHCP. Everything for the basic IP Address is using DHCP. There is a static reservation made in DHCP for everything except clients that may come and go in the guest subnet.
I have two android clients, and cannot show that command without installing apps. I have one Windows XP client, and cannot show that command, however, here is the output of ipconfig /all:
The DNS server 3.1.1.1, is my client router, and it simply goes to 1.1.1.1 for DNS. I am using the wizard to configure the network. If you want, I can tell you exactly what I click and do to get the two different configurations.
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