<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>What toes your resolve.conf look like?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:75%">Sent via the missing mobile gateway.</div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Larry Smith <lesmith@ecsis.net> <br>Date:12/10/2015 1:34 PM (GMT-08:00) <br>To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it> <br>Subject: [BlueOnyx:18764] Re: Gneric question on 5208R DNS <br><br>On Thu December 10 2015 13:49, Michael Stauber wrote:<br>> Hi Larry,<br>><br>> > Have recently loaded several 5208R servers to replace some older<br>> > bluequartz and such and have noticed that none of them will connect<br>> > to NewLinQ unless I enable DNS on the box itself.<br>><br>> Uuuh ... no, that should *not* be the case. Your server needs to be able<br>> to resolve DNS. But it doesn't need to run the DNS server.<br>><br>> Having said that: Your server needs working DNS resolution for a lot of<br>> things:<br>><br>> - YUM updates<br>> - Email (sending/receiving)<br>> - Hostname lookups on connections (FTP, Email, HTTP, SSH and others)<br>> - GeoIP (if enabled and used)<br>> - NewLinQ<br>> - RSS News feed in the GUI<br>><br>> > Just curious what under the hood is doing that as each box has valid<br>> > nameservers defined and can identify www.blueonyx.it and talk to the<br>> > network<br>><br>> In the GUI go to "Server Management" / "System Settings" / "TCP/IP".<br>><br>> There you can specify "DNS Servers", where you enter which DNS servers<br>> your BlueOnyx will use for all DNS resolutions that it needs to perform.<br>><br>> If you want to use the BlueOnyx DNS service on your own box, you would<br>> enter "127.0.0.1" or your own servers IP there. But you can also enter<br>> the IP of any other DNS server that would respond to queries. Such as<br>> "8.8.8.8" and "8.8.4.4", which are the public Google DNS servers. Or<br>> you'd enter the DNS servers that your uplink provider or datacenter<br>> provides for such purposes.<br><br>Michael,<br><br> Agree, 100%, but on the last three servers I have loaded, I enter my<br>settings for IP, mask, gateway, and DNS (generally at least two but I have<br>8 primary dns servers). Ping, email, all other functions seem to work fine,<br>but I cannot access newlinq and the intro (blueonyx news) does not work<br>unless I enable DNS on the box itself.<br><br>-- <br>Larry Smith<br>lesmith@ecsis.net<br>_______________________________________________<br>Blueonyx mailing list<br>Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it<br>http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx<br></body>