Comments on: How to Setup a DNS Server in Ubuntu

By: ulyssesr

ulyssesr — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:39:30 +0000

Abuse is never good. : )

By: jzacsh

jzacsh — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:07:35 +0000

Hey, I’m going to start a thread on unix.com and stop abusing your comments area – sorry

To answer your question, this is on a laptop (not a server) in a home network (not a business), so there’s no domain (no name servers or anything in this house). The whole network is setup fairly close to the defaults of our Dlink router. If you have any suggestions what I could look up to give me a lead, that’d be awesome! (ps, great article, I’m going to set up a domain just for kicks pretty soon)

By: ulyssesr

ulyssesr — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:51:04 +0000

SSID? Did you mean your internal domain name? A typical entry would be:

domain yourdomain.com
search yourdomain.com

By: jzacsh

jzacsh — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:20:27 +0000

Hey, thanks for the reply

My resolv.conf is (as expected) built automatically:
$ sudo less /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by NetworkManager
domain 532
search 532
nameserver 192.168.0.1

^ that nameserver 0.1 is the address of the router. 532 is the LAN’s SSID. Any pointers? I would think that’s right (not only because its automated) because the request should just be passed on to the nearest authority (the router), right?

By: ulyssesr

ulyssesr — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:22:37 +0000

Jzaksh,

It sounds like your DNS server is not forwarding to your ISP DNS servers. Check your resolv.conf configuration file.

By: jzacsh

jzacsh — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:40:55 +0000

Hi,

Do you know how to make sure there’s nothing wrong with the DNS settings on an Ubuntu client? I have Optimum Online as my ISP and I keep getting, what looks to me like, DNS errors:
http://domainnotfound.optimum.net/cablevassistctxt/dnsassist/main.iscx?ycmredirected=true&domain=google.com

I’ve never gotten a ‘domain not found’ like that on any operating system, when trying to resolve major domains. (its happening with a lot of sites, too.)

By: demopoly

demopoly — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:14:38 +0000

Hey! Thanks for not obeying standard practices, posting any warnings, or stating which systems versions you’re using.

My computer, ubuntu 9.10, no longer goes online after following these instructions. It’s offline totally. Thanks, bud.

TO ALL USERS: Use Webmin. I’ve been able to ‘mostly’ repair my system and set things back to defaults using webmin. I should have used webmin in the first place before taking advice from self-declared ‘guru’s.

By: Hakan Can

Hakan Can — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:18:52 +0000

Super site. Thx!

By: ulyssesr

ulyssesr — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:59:50 +0000

It’s the Lust theme from the 7 Deadly Series of Themes of wpdesigner.

By: log holder

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