[BlueOnyx:18766] Re: Gneric question on 5208R DNS

[Larry Smith]

On Thu December 10 2015 15:53, danny wrote:
> What toes your resolve.conf look like?
>
>
> Sent via the missing mobile gateway.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Larry Smith <lesmith at ecsis.net>
> Date:12/10/2015  1:34 PM  (GMT-08:00)
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:18764] Re: Gneric question on 5208R DNS
>
> On Thu December 10 2015 13:49, Michael Stauber wrote:
> > Hi Larry,
> >
> > > Have recently loaded several 5208R servers to replace some older
> > > bluequartz and such and have noticed that none of them will connect
> > > to NewLinQ unless I enable DNS on the box itself.
> >
> > Uuuh ... no, that should *not* be the case. Your server needs to be able
> > to resolve DNS. But it doesn't need to run the DNS server.
> >
> > Having said that: Your server needs working DNS resolution for a lot of
> > things:
> >
> > - YUM updates
> > - Email (sending/receiving)
> > - Hostname lookups on connections (FTP, Email, HTTP, SSH and others)
> > - GeoIP (if enabled and used)
> > - NewLinQ
> > - RSS News feed in the GUI
> >
> > > Just curious what under the hood is doing that as each box has valid
> > > nameservers defined and can identify www.blueonyx.it and talk to the
> > > network
> >
> > In the GUI go to "Server Management" /  "System Settings" / "TCP/IP".
> >
> > There you can specify "DNS Servers", where you enter which DNS servers
> > your BlueOnyx will use for all DNS resolutions that it needs to perform.
> >
> > If you want to use the BlueOnyx DNS service on your own box, you would
> > enter "127.0.0.1" or your own servers IP there. But you can also enter
> > the IP of any other DNS server that would respond to queries. Such as
> > "8.8.8.8" and "8.8.4.4", which are the public Google DNS servers. Or
> > you'd enter the DNS servers that your uplink provider or datacenter
> > provides for such purposes.
>
> Michael,
>
>   Agree, 100%, but on the last three servers I have loaded, I enter my
> settings for IP, mask, gateway, and DNS (generally at least two but I have
> 8 primary dns servers).  Ping, email, all other functions seem to work
> fine, but I cannot access newlinq and the intro (blueonyx news) does not
> work unless I enable DNS on the box itself.

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nameserver 65.255.98.252
nameserver 65.255.99.252
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domain ecsis.net
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-- 
Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net