Topic: Addtional DNS entries

[Kobus]

Hi All

Can any tell me how I add addtional DNS entries on my esmith. I have tried to do it via the web interface but that does not work.

Any help greatly appreciated.

[Boris]

Without more details its hard to understand what you trying to do and how.

[Kobus]

all i want to do is to add dns entires like server5.domain.com to the esmith box. I have the esmith as my pimary dns and need to add a few entries that will be resolved locally in place of going to the internet and then saying cant find it.

[kmac]

Did you add them under hostnames and addresses in the server-manager? If you did, that should work.

[Kobus]

I did and it didn't. Can I add them to the files manually?

[patrick]

kbensch,

All you need to do after adding them using the Hostnames and addresses panel is to do a restart of tinydns

I suspect this is a bug with the module as watching the logs it doesnt restart as part of the submit.

Just type: /sbin/service tinydns restart at the root prompt and adding will be complete.

I would be interested in seeing if others are seeing the same thing and if so I will add a bug report.

cheers
Patrick

[Kobus]

Thanks I will try that

[cc_skavenger]

This is probably a noob question, but how are you adding more dns entries using the hosts and addresses panel?  Are these entries to point to domains or other dns servers?  I am trying to add more than one dns server entry to SME and I haven't been able to figure out how to do this...

sorry for the rant

[Kobus]

I tried restarting tinydns as suggested but no go. I am able to add the dns records, but it seems that what I add in the server-manager does not get activated either because it does not start the service again or some other reason.

Can I not change the dns files direct and then restart tinydns?

or some other help would be much appreciated.

Kobus

[rreger]

Having the same problem.  I have specified a forwarder DNS for remote cache lookups.  All local DNS entries are not resolving.  When doing a dnstrace on SME local address, the query times out.

[Kobus]

rreger

have you recently upgraded to 6.01-01?

if so try this

service tinydns stop

service named start

I had to do this on a client box to get dns sorted, at least temp to get email going.

[Kobus]

can anybody offer any help on this please

[hardijs]

what I did:

1. add additional dns entries you want in the templates for the
/service/tinydns/root/data
the templates there are quite sufficient to guess what's going on (otherwise search dfor tinydns home )

2. add the respective name/domain you want to be resolved by your sme server (not looked up externally) in the  /service/dnscache/root/servers
(this is the missing ingredient

say file "localsecret" with contents 127.0.0.1 so that server localsecret is resolved sme locally not looked up at the root dns servers

3. expand templates /flush dnscache

should work now