MI424WR - DNS Host Name Resolution

I have added several DNS entries in the DNS Server section of the MI424WR. These are for my network printer, and I have renamed several Android devices to give them names. When I try to ping any host name that I added to the DNS Server section it does not resolve.
How can I rectify this?
Thanks,
Steve

Are your machines using the DNS Server/Relay in the ActionTec, or are they set to use External DNS Servers? An ipconfig /all readout from the command prompt will tell you this information.
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DNS Host name problem

Hi, I am a newbie to AS. Nice to join the family and meet u all.
I got some problem during installation of AS 2005Q2, when I install and select 'Config Now' option, I cannot pass since the DNS hostname always fail.
If I select 'Config Later', I will find something is missing, like asadmin tool is not avaiable.
Since I will use the Ip only, can I disable or bypass the DNS host name? since no matter how I enter it always fail.
Please advise, thank you very much in advance. :)

Hi, I am a newbie to AS. Nice to join the family and meet u all.
I got some problem during installation of AS 2005Q2, when I install and select 'Config Now' option, I cannot pass since the DNS hostname always fail.
If I select 'Config Later', I will find something is missing, like asadmin tool is not avaiable.
Since I will use the Ip only, can I disable or bypass the DNS host name? since no matter how I enter it always fail.
Please advise, thank you very much in advance. :)

Change DNS host name automatically when one device is down

Hi all
I am first copying below the question which I have posted in a thread related to DNS few days back .
You cannot vote on your own post
Hi
our network team has setup Bluecoat proxy server in our main office and DR site . We have configured GPO to populate the details of proxy server hostname in the proxy setting eg : Proxy server . IP1 is the IP address for the device in Head office
and IP2 is the IP address assigned for device in DR site. currently we have given a DNS entry as
Proxyserver - IP1.
So DNS resolves the IP address of device in Head office and authentication and internet access works.
But we want to use the DR device to be used automatically (only )when head office device is not reachable. But how to configure the settings for DNS I am not sure.
I don't want to use round robin as it will send the traffic to both head office and DR in a load balancing fashion .
for this request I had received an advice to use a script to monitor the first device continuously and if not reachable then change the Hostname in DNS to that of second device .
Let me know if anyone can help me on this.
Thanks in advance
Midhin

Hi Midhin,
Agree with Jrv, I also recommend you can consult proxy vendor for a better solution.
In addition, if you still want to update host name in DNS via Powershell, please refer to the script to update A record in DNS:
$Zone = "dns zone"
$oldobj = Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName $Zone -RRType "A" -Name "hostname"
$newobj = Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName $Zone -RRType "A" -Name "hostname"
$NewObj.RecordData.IPv4Address = "newipaddress"
Set-DnsServerResourceRecord -NewInputObject $NewObj -OldInputObject $OldObj -ZoneName $Zone
If there is anything else regarding the powershell script issue, please feel free to post back.
Best Regards,
Anna Wang
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DNS host name under virtual interface??

Hi,
Can anyone tell me what is the purpose of DNS hostname under the virtual interface? Is it a required parameter for web-authentication / how does it affect the web authentication?
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The host name under the virtual interface is for if/when you put a third party certificate in the WLC. When you register for the cert, the name you put under the virtual interface is what you use for the cert.
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DNS host name for virtual IP on WLC 5760?

Hi all,
Does anybody of you know, if there is a way in setting a DNS hostname for the virtual IP on the 5760 WLC?
The parameter-map does not offer any option.
AireOS based WLCs do offer it in order to see a DNS name instead of the virtual IP when connecting to the captive portal.
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Patrick

Hi Stephen/Patrick,
Can you try and confirm if below works?
Switch(config)#parameter-map type webauth global
Switch(config-params-parameter-map)#virtual-ip ipv4 1.1.1.1 ?
virtual-host Virtual host name
Switch(config-params-parameter-map)#virtual-ip ipv4 1.1.1.1 virtual-host
Regards,
Ankur

Trouble with DNS/NetBIOS name resolution over VPN

I’ve got one for the DNS/WINS gurus out there who are also familiar with VPN connections.
We have a VPN setup on our Mikrotik RouterBoard 532 for a number of employees running Windows 7 Pro laptops. Unfortunately the Mikrotik is maintained by our ISP so I don’t have access to it, but I can call them to make changes. Anyhow, I do not believe it
is a problem with the Mikrotik.
The problem is with resolving NetBIOS names (UNC paths, drive letters, etc…) over the VPN from remote locations, and ONLY with laptops joined to our
abc.local domain. If I use my home PC or disjoin the domain laptop from the
abc.local domain and return it to WORKGROUP, keeping the same Windows VPN client settings, I am able to resolve paths just fine.
For example, when I type \\server1 from Start>Run, it fails and tells me “server1 is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource.” Using the FQDN is no problem at all, which makes me believe the problem is with NetBIOS resolution
and takes me to the WINS servers on the network.
The VPN hands out primary and secondary WINS servers, and they appear to be configured correctly in our Server 2003/2008/2012 environment. When I run
nbtstat –A IPAddressOfLaptop from a WINS server it resolves the laptop, and the same command from the laptop looking to the server resolves OK too.
What’s strange is that when I ping “server1” I get a valid response from server1.abc.local, as expected, but for some reason I still can’t browse to it from start>Run… “\\server1”.
The DNS suffix abc.local is in the “DNS suffix or this connection” field in the properties of the VPN client since the Mikrotik VPN is unable to deal this to clients.
I have ruled out Group Policy as the culprit because even after removing any group policy from applying to one of the laptops the result was the same.
I’ve used every resource and tool that I could to try and find where the problem lies and can’t seem to solve it. Everything looks properly configured.
I would greatly appreciate some assistance!

When you run an ipconfig /all, do you see the WINS server addresses being provided? How about the connection specific suffix for the domain, domain.local (or whatever it is called)?
I assume that you are using the Microtik as the VPN server and you are not using AD accounts for authentication. I would highly suggest to do that, otherwise, there will be a mismatch.
What VPN client is being used?
What is offering DHCP, a Windows Server or the Microtik?
FYI, using NetBIOS connection method, such as \\server1, will use the current logged on account for authentication. If the VPN credentials are not AD credentials, but the VPN client is setting the logged on credentials account
(some of them do that), then it will cause issues.
From what I see that NetBIOS is not being blocked, so that doesn't appear to be an issue, but it's coming down to credentials. Maybe in the mapped drive you can preset the credentials, and might be one way around it.
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Old dns host name still showing!

I setup a new OSX 10.6 server and the dns name that i choose at the installation setup wizard was server1.mydomain.com.
after the installation is done, i decided to get rid of this name and setup a new dns name.. so i picked up a server2.mydomain.com
dns is resolving fine when i host server2.mydomain.com i got the server ip address and when i host the server ip it resolves the dns name, and also when i run the command changeip -checkhostname
both names matches and it says nothing to change.
my only problem now is when I go to Push Notifications & under configures services box, I see the old dns name and right next to it "iCal".. how can i change that so it will just match the new dns name which is dns2.mydomain.com ??
So I went to the iCal service and there is a button to Remove the old dns name..i clicked on it and it asks me for username and password for server1.mydomain.com to stop delivering push calendar notifications and when I click on connect, it shows an error:
Server Cannot be found on the network, check that the server hostname you've provided is valid or try again later?
Any idea or thoughts ?
Thanks

Here's the full dump of settings for calendar:
$ sudo serveradmin settings calendar
If you've got settings showing for your old host, shut off the calendar server, and then try resetting those references via serveradmin. (See +serveradmin help+ for details)
If that fails, I'd then start by pulling the notifications off in Server Admin and shutting off iCal Server, and re-adding calendar, and restarting, and re-adding the notifications.
Failing that, (ugh, not my preferred choice nor preferred suggestion) reinstall.

Problem with host name

Have just checked my -checkhostname in terminal and am different results for the server and DNS host name - I assume that I need them to match for open directory to work correctly? If so how do I rectify them?

If this is related to not having a gateway (over in [your other thread|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=13049450]), get a gateway.
This is one of the reasons why you want a gateway.
There are other (and nastier) reasons.

The Bonjour name does not match the host name

I changed the host name of a Mac Mini Server (OS X 10.8.5, Server 2.2.2) but then I got the email "The Bonjour name xxx-server does not match the host name yyy-server.local).
How do I fix it? (Appreciate for detailed steps.)

The Bonjour name is separate from the DNS host name, and you're hopefully not serving the .local domain from your own DNS server within OS X Server. That can cause problems.
The Bonjour name is assigned by  > System Preferences > Sharing.
If you want to see the three names assigned, launch Terminal.app from Applications > Utilities and enter the following three commands (some example output shown for each command) (do not enter the $ signs shown in the following; that's the command prompt):
$ scutil --get ComputerName
myhost
$ scutil --get HostName
myhost.example.com
$ scutil --get LocalHostName
myhost
$
Post the output from the three, and we'll have a look. If you want or need to obfuscate, please do so consistently. Example.com (as shown above) is a good choice for an obfuscated domain, too.

Domain name/"primary DNS" name/mail host name/mail server name/mx name

Hi,
I have registered my domain name (N.com) with an external dns server and created an MX record (mail.N.com) for it as well. My server sits behind a router and internet traffic is port(80)-forwarded to my server's fixed internal ip address (I can access my webpages from the internet just fine). When I initially setup the server I was asked to give it a "primary DNS name." I naturally assumed that N.com was supposed to be entered here, but that just caused all kinds of problems (though I still do not understand why). So I reinstalled and currently have server.N.com as the primary DNS name of the server (although it shows up in Server Admin and Workgroup Manager as server.local--why is that?)
I have had no luck getting any email from the internet with the default settings in mail services (domain name of N.com and host name of server.N.com). Having no luck with the defaults, I assumed that maybe I needed to change the host name to "mail.N.com" so that it matched the MX record. I also changed the user preferences in Workgroup Manager to receive mail from mail.N.com--but still no luck. Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong and how come none of the Mail Service literature mentions anything about what a mail "host name" is supposed to be? Is it supposed to be the same as the "Mail Server" name that Workgroup Manager asks each user for? and is it the same as the MX record name?
I am just needing some help to connect all these variously named, but undefined, dots.
Also, how come I can access webmail from the internet using www.N.com/webmail but can't do it from any computers within my physical network (I have to use IPaddress/webmail or server.local/webmail)?
Also, should my user email addresses be [email protected] or [email protected] (which is the current default)?
Thanks in advance and good luck!
John

I had been told by a friend that ... regular email coming in from the internet would go through port 80
Unfortunately you were misinformed.
My MX record needs the extra subname (such as "mail") in front of the domain name, right?
Not at all. A MX record for 'N.com' is entirely valid (expected, in fact).
An MX record tells remote mail servers where to send mail for any domain/subdomain. If you think about it, let's say you worked for Apple and you wanted people to be able to send email to [email protected], well then you need an MX record for 'apple.com'.
You can see if you dig MX apple.com that they actually have 9 MX records, but the point still stands.
Now, you might also have MX records for subdomains so that you can have [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc. Each of these subdomains would need a separate MX record.
So, in general, for any set of email addresses @[anything.]domain.com you have a MX record telling remote mail servers where to send that mail.
Of course the MX record name is mail.N.com, but I think you are implying that the in the Mail settings of Server Admin where it asks for domain name all I need to put there is the N.com, right?
What I mean is that you need to set the domain name to whatever domain name you expect to receive mail at.
If you want users to have email addresses in the form of [email protected], then you enter 'N.com'.
If you want users to have email addresses in the form of [email protected] then you enter 'mail.N.com'.
If you want both forms, enter one in the main domain and add the other(s) in the Advanced -> Hosting -> Local Host Aliases section.
Is there anything in the Mail settings that needs to have the full MX record name (mail.N.com)?
Yes. Either the 'domain name' or the 'Local Host Aliases' needs to contain the same thing as your MX record. That's because the MX record tells remote servers to send mail to this machine, but the machine won't accept the mail unless it is configured to do so.
What is the "host name" supposed to be?
This should be the name that remote servers see when this machine tries to send outgoing mail.
Ideally this should match the reverse DNS of your IP address, that way when it connects to a remote server it says "Hi, I'm $hostname" and the remote server can lookup the machine's IP address and see the same result. This will reduce the problem of remote servers thinking you're sending them spam.
If you only have a single IP address then this probably needs to be something like 'N.com'. If you don't have control over your reverse DNS then you're going to run into a problem.
Also in the user accounts (in Workgroup Manager) what should the "mail server name" be? Is it the host name or the domain name?
Off hand, I don't know.
Also, why are all the default user email addresses [email protected] (the name I gave the server at setup)? Why doesn't the user accounts create [email protected] as the default address?
Presumably because the mail server says it is 'server.N.com' and therefore any accounts on that machine would be [email protected]. Changing the domain name (as above) should fix that.

Clearing Host Name from Dynamic DNS set up - Home ...

I changed my DNS provider due to poor performance. Since then I have been trying to change the host name and it stays with the original. Do I have to rest teh home hub back to default settings and set it up again?
If so this is very poor...!

Oh and that is "reset the hub"

How to resolve a host name from IP using JNDI/DNS service provider

Hi
I got two questions on JNDI/DNS service provider:
1) How to resolve a host name when i got an IP
I understand How I do it inverse.
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.dns.DnsContextFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "dns://"+server+"/"+domain);
DirContext ictx = new InitialDirContext(env);
Attributes attrs1 = ictx.getAttributes(host, new String[] {"A"});
2) This example above works when I specify the domain in the provider url.
If I am not specifing a domain but only the dns server I got an NameNotFoundException.
What should I do if I don't got the domain?
get the availible domains and loop on them?

Hi,
if your DNS server supports that, you can do a reverse DNS lookup. This works as follows:
String server = "your.dns.server";
String domain = "in-addr.arpa";
String ip = "4.3.2.1";
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.dns.DnsContextFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "dns://" + server + "/" + domain);
DirContext ictx = new InitialDirContext(env);
Attributes attrs1 = ictx.getAttributes(ip, new String[] {"PTR"});1: Use the pseudo-domain in-addr.arpa
2: Use the reverse IP address for lookup, i.e. if your host has 1.2.3.4, use 4.3.2.1!!
3: Request the PTR attribute
see also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup]
Martin

How to use DNS server for name resolution for items which don't exist in active directory domain controller DNS

Dear Experts,
In our office we have a domain controller call it 'Office.com', all computers and corporate servers e.g. exchange, antivirus etc. are member of this 'office.com', it is also having a DNS. All users in office have there preferred DNS set to the corporate
DNS
We are working for ministry and offering services to them from our data center so have many servers which are for ministry but they are in our data center. For all these servers we created another DNS server which contains all entries for these servers in
forward and reverse lookup zones. In this DNS we also created a forward lookup zone for our corporate servers and zone name is 'office.com'
What we are trying to have is name resolution of all servers which are listed in other DNS build in our office on Win 2008 R2 for ministry servers
If the user change his preferred DNS to ministry DNS he can resolve the ministry server but then we can not control any thing through group policy since they are using other DNS and not the corporate DNS.
How this can be done ? like any group policy applied to corporate domain controller must take effect on users and in addition to this user must also be able to resolve server names in ministry project DNS
Please assist ASAP.
regards,

Hello,
ok so the GPO setting doesn't apply in any case.
Clients machines use the first DNS server in the list of configured ones on the NIC. If that one is available search for additional DNS servers will stop.
What i can not really understand is your description about the second DNS server. This should normally either another DC with AD integrated DNS, so everything is replicatedwithin AD replication or you use a secondary DNS on domain member server that pulls
the informations from the Master.
It sounds for me that you have configured a machine with DNS server role and created manually the zone with the same name as the domainand manually create there the required A records?
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Windows 7 IPv4 resolution of own host name problem

Hi,
Preconditions:
I have a Windows 7 SP1 with 2 network adapters. LAN1 has a static IP address and shall be used by our applications.
LAN2 uses DHCP. DNS or WINS is servers are not available.
For the applications it is necessary that the own FQDN resolves always to the same IPv4 address ( of LAN1).
I test this with the command "ping -4 -n 1 own.fqdn".
Problem:
When LAN2 has a ethernet connection, but there is no DHCP server it gets a autoconfiguration IP address starting with 169.254 .
In this case the own FQDN resolves to the 169.254.X.Y address and confuses our application.
Questions:
How can I avoid this change of the name resolution?
How decides the OS to which adapters address the own FQDN resolves?
Thanks
gs2013

Hi,
Network one is not connected to the network you think it should be connected to but that it is in fact connected to the 169.254.x.y network
instead of another network.
Windows doesn't make up IP address so if your computer is getting one it is connected to a network with a DHCP server.
please verify that you have the network cards plugged into the network you think they are plugged into and that you haven't reversed them
accidently
Then make sure you disable the first one when you choose the second one adapter.
Meanwhile, please refer to the article below to force the adapter:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/64451b61-b8d6-4e16-a396-ea418753f1c6/force-internet-connection-to-desired-network-adapter
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DNS: Zone name vs. Host name question

My little office OSX Server setup has been working fine, but I realized my DNS setup was a little weird. I think the primary zone and first host machine record were setup during the initial install/setup process, and it doesn't seem to match what Hoffman recommends in his excellent DNS Setup guide.
My primary zone was named "files.example.com", and my server host record was also named "files.example.com". Everything seemed to work, but I realized when I wanted to add some additional hosts and aliases, I was getting something like "mail.files.example.com", when what I wanted was "www.example.com".
Hoffman, and others, recommend trashing the default zone and records, and making a new zone named "example.com", then making a machine record for the server, "files.example.com".
That makes perfect sense, except I don't understand one thing: how, with this setup, can I get the dns to cough up an ip address for hostname "example.com"? Can I make a machine record with a blank hostname, thus yielding a hostname that is the same as the zone name?
Thanks.

RobertNichols wrote:
My little office OSX Server setup has been working fine, but I realized my DNS setup was a little weird. I think the primary zone and first host machine record were setup during the initial install/setup process, and it doesn't seem to match what Hoffman recommends in his excellent DNS Setup guide.
My primary zone was named "files.example.com", and my server host record was also named "files.example.com". Everything seemed to work, but I realized when I wanted to add some additional hosts and aliases, I was getting something like "mail.files.example.com", when what I wanted was "www.example.com".
Hoffman, and others, recommend trashing the default zone and records, and making a new zone named "example.com", then making a machine record for the server, "files.example.com".
That makes perfect sense, except I don't understand one thing: how, with this setup, can I get the dns to cough up an ip address for hostname "example.com"? Can I make a machine record with a blank hostname, thus yielding a hostname that is the same as the zone name?
Thanks.
Apple setup wizard creates a zonename like files.example.com i.e. the same as the host name. I totally agree with Hoffman this is wrong (and I reported it as a bug to Apple) but that is the way Apple do it until 10.7 at least.
I therefore do the same as Hoffman and trash Apple's auto-created zone and do it myself.
Note: The auto-zone format used by Apple will work and might be 'good enough' for a small simple internal only setup, but if your doing a more complex multi-server setup and especially if your going to do split-horizon DNS, it is a terrible setup.

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