Cannot access local domain

Question

I have setup a DNS server in a LAN. the BIND9 DNS server sits on 192.168.1.65

after setting my computer(macbook)'s dns server to 192.168.1.65, i am able to access the local domain setted up using bind, http://xyz.local/.

But when I access the url on the ubuntu server itself, it tells me that the url cannot be found. I can dig the link without problem, but the nslookup failed.

Any idea on how can I fix it so that the dns ubuntu box itself can also resolve the url?

Answer 1

Could be mDNS/DNS-SD.

The symptoms would be that name-resolution that goes through nss/libc fails (i.e. when you use applications like a browser, ping, etc.) but name-resolution with applications that query dns directly themselves (i.e. host, dig, etc.) succeeds in resolving the name.

If this is the case, on ubuntu you could try changing the hosts-entry in the file /etc/nsswitch.conf (remove mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return]) to say something like:

hosts:          files dns mdns4

Answer 2

Point your server's dns to 127.0.0.1 (/etc/resolv.conf) and configure bind to forward the rest to your original isp dns-es. Btw. Do you have reverse dns configured for your network addresses?

Answer 3

Have you tried restart the system, in order to flush any caches. Also when you start nslookup and give the command server, what nameserver it writes. Ex:

> server
Default server: 192.168.1.8
Address: 192.168.1.8#53