Cannot resolve hostname; DNS problem when using DHCP

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Hello,
 I can't help notice that in /etc/resolv.conf you have:
search localdomain

Yet you make no mention or definition of/for localdomain
in any other place. So, you'll either need to create a CNAME for
localdomain in a DNS zone file - or better; search: localhost,
or local in your resolv.conf file. :)

Best wishes.

--Chris


On Wed, January 21, 2009 5:11 am, votdev at gmx.de wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> i have a strange DNS problem. If i use DHCP i'm not able to ping myself
> using the hostname (and hostname+domain). The strange thing is that i
> can't reproduce this on my 'real' system (with Fritzbox router) but in a
> VM (VMWare Player). Also some FreeNAS users have the same problem with
> 'real' hardware, too.
> I can ping the VM from the host system without problems using the VM
> hostname 'freenasl.local', so there is no problem with the internal
> VMWare DNS server.
>
>
> Below i've listed everything i think it's necessary to find out what's
> wrong.
>
> Can anyone give me some hints or tipps? Maybe i'm totally blind.
>
>
> Regards
> Volker
>
>
> freenas:~# hostname
> freenas.local
>
> freenas:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf
> search localdomain nameserver 172.16.194.2
>
> freenas:~# cat /etc/hosts
> ::1 localhost localhost.local
> 127.0.0.1 localhost search localdomain
>
>
> freenas:~# netstat -r
> Routing tables
> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
>  default            172.16.194.2       UGS         0        0    em0
> localhost          localhost          UH          0       10    lo0
>
> freenas:~# cat /etc/hosts.allow
> ALL : ALL : allow
>
>
> freenas:~# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
> group: compat
> group_compat: nis
> hosts: files dns
> networks: files
> passwd: compat
> passwd_compat: nis
> shells: files
> services: compat
> services_compat: nis
> protocols: files
> rpc: files
>
>
> freenas:~# ping freenas
> ping: cannot resolve freenas: Host name lookup failure
>
>
> freenas:~# ping freenas.local
> ping: cannot resolve freenas.local: Unknown host
>
>
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