I am not a server admin guy, like most of you all so not quite clear with the options available like "Server names" & Host (A) records. looks like that's where things went wrong. @ByITDesign I can't do that as I am not able to ping the server via its machine name for the same machine.
Mar 23, 2007 · it will first try to do a ping machine2. if the dns resolution doesn't work, it will try machine2.server.redhat.com and then machine2.redhat.com If you are authoritive (hum not sure this is english) of redhat.com it will answer. Otherwise, it will go to redhat.com dns server! <-- not exactly true but that's the idea.. May 22, 2018 · The most recent one is that my computer no longer connects to the internet. Troubleshooter says that it can't connect to the DNS server and it doesn't say how to fix it. I tried resetting my router & modem, disconnecting - reconnecting, restarting the computer, and trying to use a different DNS. No connection - can't ping the BT DNS server but can ping Google's My smarthub is showing a blue light but I have no connection - factory reset hasn't made any difference. If I ping the BT DNS server 81.139.57.100 the request times out. Oct 26, 2001 · Run Winipcfg at the W98 machine and see if you have a DNS server then ping the DNS server to see if it is available. Also make sure you haven't overridden the IP entries at the client. Leave all entries blank for DHCP. Finally, check to see if you are making assumptions about a DNS suffix at the client. But, if I try and change the router's settings to set the pi as its DNS server (and change the laptop's DNS server back to the default), everything stops working. Specifically, the pi can ping everyone on the network except the router; it also can't ping IPs off-network or resolve any hostname except for pi.hole. The computers can ping the Workstation 2 can ping the server, get to the server's share, and remote into the server. It cannot ping or access anything on Workstation 2. Running a 'net view' command on all machines will list
Try changing your DNS to 8.8.8.8 (or some other publicly available DNS server) to isolate the problem. If you can't reach 8.8.8.8 the protocol may be blocked from where you are connected. If you can reach it, your DNS server is unreachable for some other reason, e.g. it is down or there is no valid route from your location on the network.
The answer to this is maybe. If you are pinging directly to an IP address, DNS will have no effect on ping times. If you are pinging a domain like google.com, DNS will affect the first ping only because initially a DNS request will be required to
But, if I try and change the router's settings to set the pi as its DNS server (and change the laptop's DNS server back to the default), everything stops working. Specifically, the pi can ping everyone on the network except the router; it also can't ping IPs off-network or resolve any hostname except for pi.hole. The computers can ping the