Hi,
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Right with regard to your problem, you're misunderstanding what bind does I think. Bind is the server software for running a DNS server - i.e. a machine that will be able to look up the FQDN etc and translate this into IP addresses for the client machines.
Bind does
not have a client side software that's part of the bind package.
What sounds more likely to me is that the machines that cannot find the server probably do not have the correct information entered in the file /etc/resolv.conf
In this file you need to specify the IP address of and DNS servers, and also any domains that the machine belongs to. For example, here's mine:
Code:
domain example.net
nameserver 192.168.1.10
search example.net.
If you just look at the /etc/resolv.conf file on the working machines, you should be able to work out what's required.
Cheers,
Steve