OpenSUSE Network :: Resolve Local Hostnames Without DNS ?

Jul 14, 2010

How do you get linux to resolve local hostnames without DNS?

I've recently migrated from a fully windows home network, to a few linux machines and im unable to ping any local machines with hostname via these linux machines. i can ping IP and internet hostnames. also, windows > anything pings ok too. however linux > anything will not ping via hostname.

I beleive it's an additional service running on windows to resolve hostnames without DNS (wins/netbios).

DNS is done via a netgear DG834 router (DNS forwarding).

I know i could either use direct IP, or add machines into the hosts file, but im wondering if theres some way around that and to have it dynamically update like it does on the windows machines. static mappings seem a bit silly inside DHCP zones

I've seen some reports of avahi causing local network issues (taking over the .local domain), but i think this only extends to having to manually enter in .local after the hostname and even after removing avahi, the problem is still present.

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Jun 28, 2010

(although I'm running Solaris, I've posted here as I expect Solaris/LINUX is irrelevant) - more of a general network Q.I have a PC running Solaris 10 (hostname MARKUNIX) and a laptop running WinXP (hostname MARK-LAPTOP). Both are connected to broadband via a router. IP addresses for each are determined via DHCP (192.168.1.nn) and I do not leave either on, 24x7. I am running Oracle on MARKUNIX and want to be able to refer to it by hostname when using Oracle tools on my laptop.Each machine can ping each other ok by ip address and curiously the Solaris PC can ping MARK-LAPTOP (I'm not sure how it resolves that?) - importantly the laptop cannot ping MARKUNIX.Now I could add MARKUNIX to my laptops hosts file but that would mean changing the file each time I boot up as the ip address for MARKUNIX will keep changing (DHCP).

Is there a way to refer to MARKUNIX without having to keep changing ip addresses and use DHCP? As I understand it the 192.168 address is private and is not really the 'real' ip address and as such can be manipulated(fixed?) even whilst using DHCP?Am I right in thinking that a static ip from my broadband supplier is the ip of my connection (router) and I'll still have the same private network referencing issues?What I've covered above pretty much is the extent of my knowledge of networking so bear that in mind please.

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How do we configure to resolve for hostnames when an IP address is provided to the DNS server.

Things I tried

The DNS daemon was started by the resolution failed. Find the logs below

** server can't find 11.127.168.192.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN

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I've compared the /etc/ssh/ssh_config, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/ssh/sshd_config and other files between the two systems and not seeing anything peculiar. arp, route, etc., don't show different behavior between the systems either.

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I'll apologize in advance for I'm sure this has been covered already, but I'm not sure of the search terms to even use to begin solving this problem. I don't know what I don't know.

I have three computers on my home network and want to reach them by their name instead of IP address since their ip is dynamically assigned. I'm using a Linksys WRT54GL router and have noticed that there exists a "DHCP Clients Table" in the router that seems to hold all the necessary information - host names and ip addresses.

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I can ping the hosts via hostname from a windows machine fine, just not from Ubuntu

I can ping external websites using hostname like [URL]

My resolve.conf file is as follows.

# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 192.168.95.253
nameserver 192.168.95.234

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I managed to set up an openvpn server, ip-forwarding and a nat iptable rule for that.

Almost everything works as expected, but my problem is:

Smartphone -> VPN -> Internet ==> works (by ip and hostname)
Smartphone -> VPN -> machine in my local network by IP ==> works
Smartphone -> VPN -> machine in my local network by its hostname => DOES NOT WORK
Machine w/ VPN server -> ping to machine in local network by ip or hostname => works

So, i wonder why i cant access a local machine through the vpn by its hostname. I guess I'm missing a forwarding rule??

iptables dump:
# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.21 on Sun Feb 7 20:56:52 2016
*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [786:59064]
:INPUT ACCEPT [728:53047]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [19:1487]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [20:1576]
-A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -j MASQUERADE
COMMIT
# Completed on Sun Feb 7 20:56:52 2016

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[code]...

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