Questions tagged [dns]
For questions pertaining to Domain Name System (DNS), a service that provides the resolution of host names to IP addresses. Use this tag when you are troubleshooting DNS issues, configuring a DNS resolver or server, or are trying to understand DNS's involvement in your situation.
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Bind9 Queries Somtimes Fail
I migrated from a Windows DNS server to Bind9 this year. Both were configured as split DNS for local servers, and recursive for public servers (not forwarding). About once or twice a day now, I get ...
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How to run DNS queries without bind package being installed
On one of my linux machines the BIND package is not installed. The Bind package provides a lot of terminal tools like host -v, nslookup, dig, etc. If I want to have shell tools or command-line tools ...
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Why would an alpine docker container resolve an IP with getent and not ping or in python?
I've run into a really weird issue while switching a docker build from a debian base image to an alpine base (FROM python:3.12-slim-bookwork, to FROM python:3.13-alpine). I suddenly get very weird DNS ...
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Linux AP and STA => managing bridge with custom DNS?
I have a SBC and I configured it to have 1 AP and 1 Station mode at the same time on my wifi module as below. Hostapd creates the access point for the interface wlan0 Interface wlan0_sta is created ...
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dhcpcd does not send hostname, reverse DNS does not work
I am using Debian Trixie on a server. I have installed it using ZFSBootMenu documentation, without a desktop environment. The installation is quite minimal in term of packages. My motherboard has 2 ...
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How to allow local network dotless names using Network Manager in Linux Mint with DHCP?
I have two hosts, MintPC and AlpineVM. The VM is on a bridged network so it appears as its own device on the network with its own address. Both obtain addresses through DHCP provided by my router/...
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dnsmasq '--read-ethers' and '--address' interaction
I run dnsmasq on a server (specifically OpenWrt) to act as both DHCP and DNS. OpenWrt DHCP configuration /etc/config/dhcp: option readethers '1' list address '/my-phone.lan/172.28.79.133' Which is ...
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Ubuntu 25.04 not using DHCP DNS server
A strange issue with split DNS that's been annoying me for ages, DHCP dns points to my adguard (primary) and my home router (secondary). Both have DNS rewrites for my local home domain servers to the ...