[PLUG] DNS question

Stephen Liu satimis at writeme.com
Wed Oct 2 08:48:01 UTC 2002


Hi Brian,

Thanks for your response

I have a remote K12LTSP server with "cygwin" installed.  I can connect it 
from a local
WinXP box (also installed with "cygwin") using the IP address of the 
server.  But WinXP could not access the server with its name.  Ping IP 
address of the server shows connection but not ping server's name (or its 
aliases).  I need to find out whether DNS is running on the server and 
configured properly.


I did following tests

(Remark: IP address of server:-  192.168.0.254
                name of server:-  server.ltsp      aliases:-  ltsp
from  "network")


On the server as root

# ps -ef|grep bind
root 2775 2729 0 16:21 pts/1 00:00:00 grep bind

# dig @192.168.0.254
; <<>> DiG 9.2.0 <<>> @192.168.0.254
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46631
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13

- snip -

;; SERVER: 192.168.0.254#53(192.168.0.254)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 2 16:01:45 2002
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 436[root at server /]# ps -ef|grep bind
root 2775 2729 0 16:21 pts/1 00:00:00 grep bind

and

#dig @127.0.0.1         shows the same result.


If DNS has been installed in the server and how to configure it properly so 
that the local WinXP can ping either its IP address or name

Thanks

Stephen Liu


At 10:28 PM 10/1/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>use 'dig'
>
>for example to check a dns server for foo.com with the IP of 127.0.0.1
>do the following...
>
>dig @127.0.0.1 foo.com ANY
>
>should dump foo.com's info....
>
>
>Stephen Liu wrote:
> >
> > Hi All Folks,
> >
> > How to find out whether DNS server has been installed and is running 
> properly.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Stephen Liu






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