[Server-devel] Static IP and DNS problems

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:43 AM, David Leeming
<david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
> I tried to set up the WAN interface with a static IP address and DNS
> pointing at the gateway, following instructions at

It is all pretty straightforward -- but "and DNS pointing at the
gateway" sounds suspicious. Where did you add that "dns pointing at
the gateway"?

> What should I be looking for?

 - Is bind running correctly on the XS? To understand this... - are
there any interesting msgs in /var/log/messages.log from named ? Do
the following commands work... (executed on the XS)

   dig google.com @localhost
   dig `hostname -f` @localhost

 - Is /etc/resolv.conf correctly pointing to the named running on the XS?

hth,



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