[H-GEN] Is this a DNS configuration problem?

[Gavin Unsworth]

> Good grief!
> How does one begin to figure out what all that means? :-(

Yeah sorry about that. It's useful to see what system calls are underway
while it stalls and from the look sof it I'd say this assumption is correct:

> This is now looking very much like a DNS configuration issue.
> What do I need to do to get the primary DNS server to answer hostname
> only queries as well as FQDN queries?

But the problem is DNS isn't designed to do what you're asking.

I'd give +5 to the earlier poster who suggested adding the relevant record
to /etc/hosts and forgetting there was a problem ;-) That’s actually a very
sensible suggestion and not a kludge.

The other one is to add your domain name with the search directive to
/etc/resolv/conf From the looks of your strace you would need something like
this in resolv.conf

search minestar.au

I'm assuming this is an experimental zone and the DNS server is running on
your own box - am I correct?

If so, prior to adding the search directive a:

$host galena

Will return no record found and after adding the search directive will
magically work ;-) as will your ssh problem.

If you go read some "how does DNS work" documentation you'll understand why
what you were wanting DNS to do won't work. Um, actually you could prolly
make it work by adding a galena zone as well as a minestar.au zone, but that
truly is a kludgy kludge.

Hope this helps ....

Gavin Unsworth






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