AD DNS

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Aug 27 02:08:14 UTC 2003


stephan schutter wrote:

> Hi,
> I am in a large network that uses Active Directory DDNS and redhat can 
> simply not resolve any other computernames in the network... well 
> atleast thare is a large segment of them that can not be resolved. no 
> workstations for example.  I use the default setup and allow DHCP to 
> configure everything. In windows it works fine, but in this version  
> (I do not know about earlier versions) it does not work at all. I do 
> nslookup to the same server using the same DNS server and get diferent 
> results. eg. the DNS server (windows 2000)  does not reply with the 
> same anwer if you are redhat.
> WIN:
> Z:\tmp\scan>nslookup burner
> Server:  dhcnic02.<removed>.com
> Address:  10.104.241.115
>
> Name:    burner.stores.<removed>.com
> Address:  10.89.17.84
>
> REDHAT:
> Note:  nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
> Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead.  Run nslookup with
> the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
> Server:         10.104.241.115
> Address:        10.104.241.115#53
>
> ** server can't find burner: SERVFAIL
> What is going on????!!! RedHat cant talk DNS??
>
>
>
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Are you specifying the fully qualified domain.  Look at 
/etc/resolv.conf.  What does it have for its domain?  What does it have 
after search?  

Dan






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