First I would like to thank you for really nice ane helpfull email. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 17:20 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote: >> Do you have any issues when domain ends with dot local (.local) ? >> >> How can I troubleshoot this more and fix it? >> >> Both Fedora and Windows use the same DNS and same default gateway. > > And does that DNS server have an answer for queries to that domain name? > If it does, does it have the right answer? ping doesn't work from Fedora; # ping web.iskon.local ping: unknown host web.iskon.local # ping samba.iskon.local ping: unknown host web.iskon.local > How domains are resolved is configured in a few places. > The /etc/nsswitch.conf has a hosts section which lists the places to > look up through, in sequence. Mine has the following in it: > > #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns > hosts: files dns > > ("files" being the /etc/hosts file, "dns" being a DHS server.) > > Putting a custom entry into your hosts file, for your .local addresses, > ain't gonna help you if it consults a DNS server, first, which says > something different about .local. > > That's used for networking, in general. SMB work independently, it can > also use an lmhosts file (inside the /etc/samba/ directory), or as a > WINS server (an option inside the smb.conf file), as well as DNS. > > I'd suggest posting your hosts, nsswitch.conf, resolv.conf and smb.conf > files for others to see what you're doing, rather than guess. Also the > outputs from running nslookup and dig with your problem domain name. Here is mine nsswitch.conf : http://fpaste.org/paste/10360 hosts : http://fpaste.org/paste/10361 resolv.conf : http://fpaste.org/paste/10362 > i.e. dig samba.domain.local > nslookup samba.domain.local $ dig web.domain.local ; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P2-RedHat-9.5.1-2.P2.fc10 <<>> web.domain.local ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53744 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;web.domain.local. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: web.domain.local. 1200 IN A 10.0.0.18 ;; Query time: 5 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.6#53(10.0.0.6) ;; WHEN: Tue Apr 28 14:18:17 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 49 $ nslookup web.domain.local Server: 10.0.0.6 Address: 10.0.0.6#53 Name: web.domain.local Address: 10.0.0.18 $ host 10.0.0.18 28.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer web.domain.local. But I can't ping web.domain.local :( And typing http://web.domain.local in Firefox doesn't open the web page, but typing IP it does. If I type 10.0.0.8 in Firefox I get the home page. As I mentioned I also have Winwdows in VirtualBox VM and there everything works ok - ping works and also Firefox opens web.domain.local without problems. > If you're bodging up faux domain names, you might have to fiddle quite a > few things to get it to work. I found it easier to run my own domain > name server, with records for local domain names, and have all my local > computers use my domain name server. When I enter in my hosts file this line: 10.0.0.18 web.domain.local then I can ping the web server from my Fedora laptop... any ideas? -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines