I have a small network with 6 machines. i fedora core 2 that is dhcpd httpd named server for the netowrk. it is called fedora.homenet.home and the others are a variation on <somename>.homenet.home.
The problem:-
If I issue nslookup i can get the names and IP's of the other Pc's on the network no problem, but if I nslookup then ask for fedora I can't get an answer, however, if I ask for homenet.home I get the IP of fedora(its the only static IP 192.168.1.1) and it thinks the name is homenet.home and not fedora.homenet.home?
The exact same thing happens with host -l homenet.home, I get all the names and IP's of the PC's but nothing for fedora.homenet.home. It gives me the IP but thinks its called homenet.home. Any ideas!!

Thanx in advance

what does /etc/sysconfig/network file say about fedora box name?
HOSTNAME=...

I'm not at the fedora box but I'm positive the file is:-

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=fedora.homenet.home

do u have an entry in zone file about fedora box?

like:
fedora IN A 192.168.1.1

or

fedora IN CNAME homenet.home.

I don't think so. Where in the file shall a place the entry? Can u give me the correct syntax please!?

dont u have named running? so u must have zone files for homenet.home

check /etc/named.conf to learn name of zone file of the homenet.home domain. not the reverse zone file!! if u want resolve ip to name, u must edit reverse zone file and add PTR records.
and find the file. it must be in somewhere of /var/named

#find /var/named -name "zone-file-name-of-homenet.home" -type f

after that, edit that file and add the following line.
fedora IN CNAME homenet.home.

did u use wizard to create homenet.home zone file ?

You can add the entry in the /etc/hosts file as well. I think its faster and easier. Ths 'hosts' file looks at static entries to resolve any hostnames to IP's and vice versa when their isnt a name server on the network. You can use that file and the DNS you have setup at the same time.

just add the line :

192.168.1.1 fedora.homenet.home fedora.homenet.home

NetAX, u r right.
but the host files of other clients must be updated too. otherwise clients wont know the ip of the fedora.homenet.home

I edited the filed from scratch using vim. named is running. when i look at /var/log/messages and restart named it says named start up succeeded loaded serail ......
i have the folowing files in /var/named/chroot/var/named
homenet.home.zone
homenet.home.rev
named.ca
named.local

I'm not at my box now this is from memory.

which file do i add th line fedora IN CNAME homenet.home.
and where?

i think the file that u must edit is /var/named/chroot/var/named/homenet.home.zone
just add that line at the end of file.

i hope it will work. because u use named with chroot. and u probably used system-config-bind wizard .

when i tried to configure named by using fedora's wizard, i failed to add some A and PTR records correctly i think editing files is the best way.

good luck

thanx for the help, I'll give it a try when I'm at my fedora box.