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DNS Problem. WIN98 does not find DNS Server...

Post by Marvi » Wed, 02 Sep 1998 04:00:00



Hi!


> Hi. Problem: successfully installed apache on my linux PC. Now my WIN98 pc
> does not seem to accept linux to serve as DNS...

   First Apache is no DNS daemon, but a web server.

Quote:> Netscape accepts plain IPs
> but no domain names. i think i have set it up correctly.. on my linux console
> it works. pinging domains is OK. IPs are found. but again my WIN98 PC cannot
> ping domains.

On your Linux box you have to set up /etc/hosts to run apache. so you can ping
domains on your  localhost. Win98 dosnt know about this file.

You can either set up a hosts file on Win98 including all domains you need or set
up Linux as DNS.
If Linux is your DNS server you have to provide the IP to Win98 in
Network/Protocol IP/settings/DNS to the appropiate address.

After that Netscape should accept domains.
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       Georg Ortmanns (Marvin)

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DNS Problem. WIN98 does not find DNS Server...

Post by Brian McCaule » Wed, 02 Sep 1998 04:00:00



> Hi. Problem: successfully installed apache on my linux PC. Now my WIN98 pc
> does not seem to accept linux to serve as DNS... Netscape accepts plain IPs
> but no domain names. i think i have set it up correctly.. on my linux console
> it works. pinging domains is OK. IPs are found. but again my WIN98 PC cannot
> ping domains.

Have you set up a DNS server on the Linux box?

If not then the problem is probably that you have not set up a DNS
server on your Linux box.

If you have set one up then what messages does it log to the system
log when it starts?

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DNS Problem. WIN98 does not find DNS Server...

Post by Brian McCaule » Fri, 04 Sep 1998 04:00:00



> > Have you set up a DNS server on the Linux box?

> > If not then the problem is probably that you have not set up a DNS
> > server on your Linux box.

> Yes, DNS enabled for normal operation and named started.

> > If you have set one up then what messages does it log to the system
> > log when it starts?

> it says (short :) : starting
>                     cache zone loaded ""
> #?? what zone?##    primary zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" loaded

All servers are primary for "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" so that a
gethostbyaddr() on 127.0.0.1 always returns "localhost.".

Quote:>                     ready to answer queries

OK, so you've got a running DNS.  Does it manage to answer queries
locally (using nslookup or dig) to talk to it?  Does it still work if
you address the queries to it on the address that the windows box is
using?


Do you have any input/output firewall rules?

Silly question: can the Windows box talk to the Linux box with other
protocol (I think you said it could but I'd better check).

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1. Dynamic DNS not working with Solaris DHCP/DNS server and win clients

I've got a solaris 9 04/04 box set up with the bundled DNS and DHCP servers but I can't seem to get windows XP clients to dynamicaly register their names in DNS. DHCP seems to work just fine.

I've followed the rather simple doco at http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-5529/6jehkcs59?a=view however it still does not work.
This doco covers adding the allow-update directive to the named.conf file, which I've done for local and loop back IPs and then ticking the "Update DNS host information upon client request" check box in DHCP configuration.

When I configure a DHCP domain from scratch and it comes to the section on where to store host names, I choose DNS, I get a popup that says "Unable to manage defined hosts table". I've gone back to "none" then later ticked Edit -> Modify: "Update DNS host information upon client request"....still no updates.

There is nothing loged in the DHCP logs relevant to dns problems.

My named.conf file is:
bash-2.05# cat /etc/named.conf
options {
        directory "/etc/named";
        pid-file "/var/run/named.pid";
        forwarders {
                <dns 1>;
                <dns 2>;
                <dns 3>;
                };
        forward first;
        };

zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "/etc/named/db.cache";
        };

zone "pjama.loc" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/named/<my domain>.hosts";
        allow-update {
                127.0.0.1;
                192.168.200.1;
                192.168.200.11;
                };
        };

zone "200.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        allow-update {
                127.0.0.1;
                192.168.200.1;
                192.168.200.11;
                };
        file "/etc/named/192.168.200.rev";
        };

logging {
        category default {
                default_syslog;
                default_debug;
                default_stderr;
                };
        };
bash-2.05

Any assistance appreciated.

Cheers
Peter Arnold

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