Topic: dns server?

[Jim]

Hello,

How do you point the e-smith 5.0 server to another internal dns server?  Right now when you look under configuration it list its own ip as the dns server.  I want to use another dns server.

Thanks,

Jim

[Henri]

Hi,

On the console menu of the server you follow these steps:
1: Select option 2 "Configure this server".
2: Select until you get to "Select master DNS server address".
3: Type in the IP address of your DNS server you want to use.
4: Select until your back at the console menu.
5: Your done.

Regards,
Henri

[Robert Devantier]

I did this to my server, and it doesn't make a difference.  I have posted about it in the last few weeks, but nobody seems to come up with any answers.  I finally sent it in as a bug, but have yet to hear anything from that as well.

Have a LAN with a name subnet of 1.2.3.x with a name of "mynet.edu".  DNS server is 1.2.3.1 and is primary for "mynet.edu".  If I go to any workstation, I can ping printer.mynet.edu without any problem because it is in the primary DNS table.  Go to my stand-alone SME v5.x box (sme.mynet.edu), do a ping to printer.mynet.edu, it doesn't know it.  Why?  The SME box thinks it is primary for "mynet.edu".  If I go into /home/dns/etc/named.conf and comment out the arpa and zone for this subnet, all is well.  But why should I have to do that, I already told SME the primary DNS for my LAN was 1.2.3.1.

Robert Devantier

[Bobby]

Is you SME server 1.2.3.1?  If not, are you listing that printer in two different DNS servers?

[Robert Devantier]

No, the server is 1.2.3.2, the printer can be any number (say 1.2.3.10).

The problem is that internal to the SME server, it thinks it is the primary for the zone 1.2.3.x and "mynet.edu".  All of the DNS entries are in the DNS server, not the SME's DNS.  If I setup a printer queue on SME to print to printer.mynet.edu, I want to use the DNS name of "printer.mynet.edu" that I have entered into my DNS server.  Why should I have to maintain a second set of DNS entries on the SME box as well?

Another scenario:
DNS on .1, SME on .2, Outside web sever on .3
User workstation using DNS for DNS lookups.  Browses to www.mynet.edu, sees pages on the outside web server on .3.  Now, configures browser to use SME for proxy.  Browses to www.mynet.edu, see pages on the SME's primary i-bay.  Because SME thinks www.mynet.edu is itself.