Thread: internal DNS issues

i have 2 internal virtual hosts setup on apache2; each displayed when login webmin; site1 , site2 each on port 80, different document root dir's.

inside lan.

can access http://site1 fine browser inside lan. url started working after samba/winbind installed.

cannot access http://site2 unless edit client pc's hosts file.

installed dnsmasq on same server, use local dns resolution. read dnsmasq uses /etc/hosts file, added restarting networking each time:

192.168.1.137 site1 site2

no resolution when going http://site2, tried this:

192.168.1.137 site1
192.168.1.137 site2

still no go.

pointers?

posted dbecker

i have 2 internal virtual hosts setup on apache2; each displayed when login webmin; site1 , site2 each on port 80, different document root dir's.

inside lan.

can access http://site1 fine browser inside lan. url started working after samba/winbind installed.

cannot access http://site2 unless edit client pc's hosts file.

installed dnsmasq on same server, use local dns resolution. read dnsmasq uses /etc/hosts file, added restarting networking each time:

192.168.1.137 site1 site2

no resolution when going http://site2, tried this:

192.168.1.137 site1
192.168.1.137 site2

still no go.

pointers?

hi dbecker

sounds me client machines aren't using server name resolution. (this suggested site1 working when installed samba, mean clients able use local netbios name resolution, it's not way realy.)

1. test dnsmasq

on server

code:

dig @localhost site2 a

on client

code:

dig @192.168.1.137 site2 a

both should answer 192.168.1.137

2. check local name server

on cleint

code:

cat /etc/resolv.conf

is nameserver 192.168.1.137 or else? guess you'll find it's else, given dhcp.

3. find dhcp server

dhcp server router (most likely) or dnsmasq (if installed that). whichever is, check giving out name server address clients. i'm pretty sure that's it's going wrong.

hope that's helpful.

kind regards,
joanthan.

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