Problem with name resolving

Lyle Giese lyle at lcrcomputer.net
Fri Jul 1 16:35:29 UTC 2011


On 07/01/11 08:50, Markus Feldmann wrote:
> Am 01.07.2011 14:51, schrieb Lyle Giese:
>> Markus,
>> To be sure, you know that nslookup and dig do NOT use the search
>> parameter in /etc/resolv.conf. So when you do an nslookup or dig query,
>> you have to use the fully qualified domain name(FQDN).
>>
>> PING uses the search parameter in /etc/resolv.conf, so that can be a
>> source of confusion for you.

Don't really care about ping outputs.  You are asking about name 
resolution with your bind server.  I don't care about ping because it 
uses some methods that are outside of DNS.  Like checking your hosts 
file and adding the search domains.

I will only comment on DIG outputs.  NSLOOKUP is better than PING, but 
does not post as much diagnostic output as DIG.  So when 
troubleshooting, DIG is the best option.

>> It would appear that you setup the dyndns client on your debian box to
>> update feldland.dyndns.org. But how and where do you update the other
>> two? www.feldland.dyndns.org and test.feldland.dyndns.org
>>
>> Or did you forget to create those at dyndns.org?

> Because i am using one Ip for two sites i do not have to register more
> than one host. yes its confusing me :-) I am not sure which of my
> services resolve the names correctly, but because of the fact i
> registered only feldland.dyndns.org at dyndns.org, i think i have to
> solve the problem in my network localy and not at dyndns.org

You are right in that you only need one host at dyndns.org to update 
your ip address, but you want to have two different websites.  The 
proper way to do that is with CNAME entries pointing to the host you are 
updating at connect time.

Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.



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