Thanks to all for your comments ! 1°) localnet seems to work really better !
2°) In my configuration, I also had following modification to do : - add "nameserver 127.0.0.1" in /etc/resolv.conf of the server - add "192.168.0.11 <servername>" in /etc/hosts of the server With all that, I can ping everything from everywere, in every way (hostname or full name including domain). gUI 2013/11/8 Jim Alles <[email protected]> > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Guillaume Betous < > [email protected]> wrote: > > what kind of local domain name can I use ? I thought the .local was >> reserved for local networks... >> > > Since both .lan and .local can be problematic under certain circumstances > (especially public upstream DNS servers, such as google, opendns, and > others); I have used .localnet, from the dnsmasq FAQ: > > Q: Names on the internet are working fine, but looking up local names > from /etc/hosts or DHCP doesn't seem to work. > > A: Resolver code sometime does strange things when given names without > any dots in. Win2k and WinXP may not use the DNS at all and just > try and look up the name using WINS. On unix look at "options ndots:" > in "man resolv.conf" for details on this topic. Testing lookups > using "nslookup" or "dig" will work, but then attempting to run > "ping" will get a lookup failure, appending a dot to the end of the > hostname will fix things. (ie "ping myhost" fails, but "ping > myhost." works. The solution is to make sure that all your hosts > have a domain set ("domain" in resolv.conf, or set a domain in > your DHCP server, see below for Windows XP and Mac OS X). > Any domain will do, but "localnet" is traditional. Now when you > resolve "myhost" the resolver will attempt to look up > "myhost.localnet" so you need to have dnsmasq reply to that name. > The way to do that is to include the domain in each name on > /etc/hosts and/or to use the --expand-hosts and --domain options. > > Jim A. > -- Pour la santé de votre ordinateur, préférez les logiciels libres. Lire son mail : http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/products/thunderbird/ Browser le web : http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/products/firefox/ Suite bureautique : http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
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