Shaun Skillin (home) wrote: > Hi Phil, > Can you confirm if DNS is handled by the EFW box? In the DHCP scope, do > you tell the clients to point to the EFW for DNS resolution, or to some > other DNS server? > Someone please correct my limited info on this one... I use other DNS > servers in my implementations. From what I can see, EFW will act as a > DNS *proxy*, even transparently, but it does not run BIND or something > else, so cannot be authoritative for any zones, even private internal > zones. In this case, it would not accept DDNS registrations from > clients, so... no name resolution for those client host names. > In sites where EFW is doing the DHCP work, I still point the clients to > another internal server running a DNS daemon. Bash away, but MS's DNS > does good stuff with Windows clients and DDNS registrations. It's > almost a requirement, if you're talking about a Windows AD domain, to > have the AD workstations use the domain controller's DNS for > registration and resolution. > I hope that doesn't muddy things too much, Phil... > > Shaun > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Trickett (List) [mailto:phil...@techworks.ie] > Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 10:59 AM > To: AJ Weber; efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Efw-user] Local hostnames - DHCP > > Hi AJ, > > No, there is still no resolution of names on the network for hosts that > have DHCP assigned addresses. > > This is strange, as in the logs I see the following: > > Mar 4 15:46:19 dhcpd DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.5.194 from > 00:16:42:21:8f:b2 (tiny) via br0 > > where tiny is the name of the host. > > I can't quite work out why this is not working, as from the sounds of > it, it should pretty much work 'out of the box' > > Phil > > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 12:11 -0500, AJ Weber wrote: > >> Did you try adding your domain-name after the hostname? If that >> > works, then > >> you might have to add (probably uncomment) a line in the dnsmasq.conf >> > file > >> to auto-append it. >> >> I think you can do that on a windows client as well by setting the dns >> > > >> search order ("Append these suffixes...") in TCP settings. >> >> Maybe that helps. >> >> -AJ >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Philip Trickett (List)" <phil...@techworks.ie> >> To: <efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 6:42 AM >> Subject: [Efw-user] Local hostnames - DHCP >> >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was just wondering if it is possible to have resolving local >>> > hostnames > >>> for machines that get the IP addresses from DHCP? >>> >>> e.g. If I connect a laptop (laptop1) to the network, and then try to >>> ping it on the network: >>> >>> ping laptop1 >>> I get: >>> ping: unknown host laptop1 >>> >>> I can see the host names in the DHCP part of the services tab. >>> >>> I upgraded to endian from IPCop, and under IPCop all local hostnames >>> would resolve correctly. >>> >>> Could this be due to the way it has been configured? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Phil >>> >>> >>> >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > >>> Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San >>> > Francisco, > >>> CA >>> -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the >>> Enterprise >>> -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source >>> participation >>> -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source >>> > code: > >>> SFAD >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Efw-user mailing list >>> Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user >>> >>> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > >> Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San >> > Francisco, CA > >> -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the >> > Enterprise > >> -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source >> > participation > >> -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source >> > code: SFAD > >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H >> _______________________________________________ >> Efw-user mailing list >> Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San > Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the > Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source > participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: > SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Efw-user mailing list > Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Efw-user mailing list > Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user > Hi Shaun,
First of all, apologies for the multiple posts to the lists, evolution was busy dying on me.... efw is the dns sever for the network, and there is no secondary backup at the moment as I am testing the resolving of the local names. Luckily, we run mostly linux boxes here, so I do not have to deal with AD. This is strange, as I was looking at the logs and the config files, and everything seems set up for the local hostname resolution. Cheers, Phil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
