Re: [Efw-user] Weird DNS issue

[Fajar P. <faj...@ar...>]

On Friday 12 May 2006 03:14, Jake Vickers wrote:
> Hello everyone. I'm having a strange (at least I think so) DNS issue.
> (The website seems to be having issues right now as well..... as a FYI)
> Anyway, I have programmed in DNS servers for my static IP connection on
> red. Green is running dhcp, and issues the firewall's IP address as a
> DNS server (192.168.6.1).
> I gave the firewall the same domain name (milleniagallery.com) as the
> mail (mail.milleniagallery.com) and FTP servers
> (ftp.milleniagallery.com), which are hosted elsewhere. Everything works
> fine up to this point. Web pages resolve, people can surf, etc. BUT,
> they cannot access the email server/FTP server
> (mail.milleniagallery.com) while connected on green. It says unknown
> host. I tried to ping from the firewall CLI, and it says the same thing.
> It's like the firewall is not resolving that particular domain name. It
> resolves everything else. I know the DNS servers are good.
> When I add the names (ftp.milleniagallery.com) to the /etc/hosts file,
> they can now access the FTP server and everything resolves again. This
> entry got cleaned out sometime during the night, though (does it rebuild
> these files periodically?), so they could not access the ftp/email
> again. Anyone have any ideas?
> Thanks in advance.

Hi Jack, nice to see you here :)
I think as a temporary solution, we can create a cronjob that make sure 
the /etc/hosts stays as we want it.
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