[plug] DNS not working on SLES10

Mark J Gaynor mark at mjg.id.au
Fri Feb 9 19:19:52 WST 2007



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On 9/02/2007 at 12:55 PM Jon  Miller wrote:

>Dig works on the dns server, but the issue is why the workstations are

resolv.conf needs the nameserver to know where to look, if it doesn't have
a NS to query first it looks to one of the ROOT DNS's and works back till
it
finds your domain etc. Have you setup the resolv.conf on the workstations
to point to your DNS.

>not working, cannot do nslookup.
>
>Jon
>
>>>> mark at mjg.id.au 5:38:37 pm 8/02/2007 >>>
>Have you tried to DIG or NSLOOKUP the domains to see if there is any
>resolution taking place. Have a look at the logs to see if the name server
>is starting up without any errors.  DNS will usually fail a badly
>configured
>domain and continue to run.
>
>Mark
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>On 9/02/2007 at 5:13 AM Jon  Miller wrote:
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>>I'm having an issue where on a SLES10 box DNS is not working properly. 
>>It does load up, when I try to ping any servers on the internal network I
>>get "unknown host".  The zone files are setup with both the regular zone
>>file with host to ip address and another file with reverse address to
host
>>file. The master zone file is looking at an upstream dns server, but
there
>>is not way to tell if this is working other then a ping test.
>>Any idea on what may be the problem?
>>
>>Tests I've run:
>> named-checkzone domain.wa.edu.au db.domain.wa.edu.au.int
>>results:
>>zone domain.wa.edu.au/IN: has no NS records
>>
>>
>>
>>J
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