Zentyal Forum, Linux Small Business Server
Zentyal Server => Other modules => Topic started by: davidjm on December 13, 2018, 02:18:25 pm
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Hi,
Have a server running 4.2.12 handling mail and DNS but not yet DHCP. I have setup the DHCP on the WAN router and pointed DNS to the Zentyal. The Zentyal has a few standard forwarders (google et al) and everything seems to be running fine. When i bench test DNS the Zentyal reports as fastest, which seems OK. The problem i have is setting up machines name resolution within the network. For example I have a file server, who's hostname cannot be pinged and only resolves on some PCs. I have tried adding it to the DNS hostnames section for the domain but it still doesn't resolve. What am i doing wrong?
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I think it would be a lot easier if you setup Zentyal as DHCP, that way, you can easyly check why dns updates (...) are not working...
Do all Clients pull theri IPs from the WAN Router, or do some have a static config?
Regards
BerT
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Hi BerT,
Thanks for the reply. Most clients pull IP from router, some such as the ESXi machine and file server are fixed.
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Do the clients where the ping (hostname) is working have somethin in common / or do the other clients have something in common?
does the fileserver resolve via fqdn?
if it resolves via fqdn, look after the search-domain ;-)
Regards
Thomas
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No not really, seems to be luck.
Have improved the situation by using Google DNS on the Draytek router and setting up a conditional DNS to point to the Zentyal box for domain DNS. So far so good.