Hostname not in DNS

[AntiThesis]

Heya

Red hat 7.2 server running as a proxy (soon to be used as our main) and the hostname is not appearing in Windows DNS. I can ping the machine fine as long as I stick to IP. If I try hostname it simply doesn't exist.

Anything I can do?

 

[twiga]

nsupdate will be able to do it for you. Looks very complicated though

 

[NetSpike]

DNS in Windows

You need to point the Windows machines to the DNS server containing the zone for the domain with the hostname you wish to ping.

The reason you cannot ping hostnames is because those hostnames are not resolved to IP addresses.

For example, a local network might have a local internal DNS server for resolving internal network hostnames. For resolving Internet hostnames, you might need to setup those machines to use an external DNS server such as SAIX's 196.25.1.11 and 196.25.1.14.

An easy solution might be to setup the Primary DNS to a local internal DNS server for resolving your internal hostnames and setup the Secondary DNS to a SAIX's DNS server for resolving external DNS hostnames.

If you want to run a local internal DNS server from your Redhat box, you need to install BIND and set your Windows machines to use the machine running BIND as its DNS server.

Hope this helps a bit.

 

[asmith]

RedHat 7.2? That is like 5 years out of date!!!??

 

[AntiThesis]

Yep. Ancient as the grave. Buut it's an accepted stable release according to the company

Ta folks.