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FVS318G LAN hosts can't ping each other by name, only by IP
I have a mixed Windows/ Linux SOHO network (192.168.1.0/24) and am replacing an IPCop Linux firewall with a Netgear FVS318G (Firmware Version: 3.1.1-08). I've configured the FVS318G as a DHCP server (fixed leases for clients) and a DNS proxy for the LAN.
LAN hosts can ping WAN hosts correctly (so DNS is working).
But, LAN hosts cannot ping each other by name; LAN hosts can only ping LAN hosts by IP:
The solution on IPCop was to add entries to the /etc/hosts file.
How do I configure the FVS318G to provide DNS responses for its DHCP clients?
TIA,
David
LAN hosts can ping WAN hosts correctly (so DNS is working).
But, LAN hosts cannot ping each other by name; LAN hosts can only ping LAN hosts by IP:
2013-05-25 11:53:09 dpchrist@desktop ~
$ ping -c 1 forum1.netgear.com
PING forum1.netgear.com (199.166.4.89) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from netgear6.tcn.net (199.166.4.89): icmp_req=1 ttl=47 time=127 ms
--- forum1.netgear.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 127.522/127.522/127.522/0.000 ms
2013-05-25 11:53:12 dpchrist@desktop ~
$ ping -c 1 dc86yxb1
ping: unknown host dc86yxb1
2013-05-25 11:53:19 dpchrist@desktop ~
$ ping -c 1 192.168.1.86
PING 192.168.1.86 (192.168.1.86) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.86: icmp_req=1 ttl=128 time=116 ms
--- 192.168.1.86 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 116.384/116.384/116.384/0.000 ms
The solution on IPCop was to add entries to the /etc/hosts file.
How do I configure the FVS318G to provide DNS responses for its DHCP clients?
TIA,
David
4 Replies
- You have no DNS server handling name resolution for the LAN hosts.
fordem wrote: You have no DNS server handling name resolution for the LAN hosts.
Yes. But the question is:dpchrist wrote: How do I configure the FVS318G to provide DNS responses for its DHCP clients?
If the answer is "the FVS318G does not have this capability", then I'd like to hear a Netgear employee say so.
David- You're going to wait a long time to hear a Netgear employee say that - this forum is hosted by Netgear, but any Netgear employee on here, is here in a personal capacity.
Anyway, for what it's worth, the FVS318G does not have that capability, it can be used as a DNS proxy, but not as a DNS server - as you have seen it forwards your DNS requests, and returns the resolved addresses, however it is incapable of holding DNS records for the local hosts, which aren't held anywhere outside of your LAN, so local name resolution fails. If the answer is "the FVS318G does not have this capability", then I'd like to hear a Netgear employee say so.
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