hi all

just having an issue with our development server on our private network
it used to be able to ping web addresses
but recently for some reason, it gets this error message when trying to ping or ssh a server using the domain name rather than the ip address

i don't think we have changed anything
i think this is also affecting the php installation, which cannot use fgets, etc to send requests to our web server
causing us to get can't locate network address errors

does anyone know what our problem is here
and how to fix it?

thanks
dave

while logged in on that server, what does nslookup <domainname> say??
if that can't get IP from name, there's a problem with your DNS server.
could be that bind doesn't run.. (if you run your own DNS server)

have a look in: /etc/resolv.conf
(look for the line:

nameserver

what does that say?

-Geir

/etc/resolv.conf says
nameserver 192.168.1.1
nslookup, host, just say ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

don't know much about DNS, so don't know if bind is running or not

thanks for your reply

add entry

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

to /etc/resolv.conf

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dns is a way to convert names to ip addresses. Other ways exist and other issues may stop it. If dig and nslookup fail and a browser fail then we assume some issue with dns globally.

192.168.1.1 suggests to me that your router/gateway was at one time the dhcp server as well as dns for your lan. One can use it and use others usually. Your ISP should provide you with correct IP addresses. In some cases, you can use open ip addresses for dns such as the 8.8.8.8 example or from other sources.

In some cases you have to log into the router and change it to allow dns.