[Dnsmasq-discuss] Can't ping when using FQDN

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 09:46:02 GMT 2013


Using .local is generally reserved for multicast DNS.

Don't do that.

On Nov 8, 2013 1:37 AM, "Guillaume Betous" <guillaume.betous at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> you must be right :
>
> domain domain.local
> nameserver <my.isp.ip.address1>
> nameserver <my.isp.ip.address2>
>
> 2013/11/8 Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud at free.fr>:
> > Le 08/11/2013 07:44, Guillaume Betous a écrit :
> >
> >> Hi !
> >>
> >> I'm trying to setup my local network with a local domain (say
> >> "domain.local").
> >>
> >> In dnsmasq.conf :
> >> - local=/domain.local/
> >> - domain=domain.local
> >> - expand_hosts
> >>
> >> Only the server has a fixed IP address (192.168.0.11), all other use
DNS :
> >> DNS is based on machine hostname => this works great, all machine have
> >> it's right IP address
> >> e.g. :
> >> - dhcp-host=foo,192.168.0.2,infinite
> >> - dhcp-host=bar,192.168.0.30,infinite
> >>
> >> On the different machine, the /etc/resolv.conf seems to be correctly
> >> updated :
> >> domain domain.local
> >> search domain.local
> >> nameserver 192.168.0.11
> >>
> >>
> >> When I ping a computer, I have very different results following the
test
> >> case :
> >>
> >>> From other computer, with single name => OK
> >>
> >> ============================
> >>
> >> guillaume at foo:~$ ping bar
> >> PING bar.domain.local (192.168.0.30) 56(84) bytes of data.
> >> 64 bytes from bar.domain.local (192.168.0.30): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=110
> >> ms
> >> 64 bytes from bar.domain.local (192.168.0.30): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=153
> >> ms
> >> 64 bytes from bar.domain.local (192.168.0.30): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64
time=78.1
> >> ms
> >>
> >>> From server, with single name => Not OK
> >>
> >> ============================
> >>
> >> guillaume at server:~$ ping bar
> >> ping: unknown host bar
> >>
> >>> From other computer or server, with full name => Not OK
> >>
> >> =================================
> >>
> >> guillaume at foo:~$ ping bar.domain.local
> >> ping: unknown host bar.domain.local
> >>
> >>
> >> Do you have an idea on what is wrong with my configuration ?
> >
> >
> > Most probably the server is not configured to use itself as a DNS, and
> > therefore relies on its /etc/hosts on for resolution; and as the names
of
> > the machine which dnsmasq serves are not in the server's /etc/hosts,
they
> > don't get resolved locally.
> >
> > What does /etc/resolv.conf contain on the server?
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> gUI
> >
> >
> > Amicalement,
> > --
> > Albert.
> >
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