Hi IIya Thank you for your reply.
>Hello, > > > >>From my laptop if I ping the server: >>ping www.mydoamin.com >>ping: cannot resolve www.mydoamin.com: Host name lookup failure >> >>But if I log in to the server and do the same ping, it works fine. >> >> > > >1) check your laptop is configured to work with this DNS server (cat >/etc/resolv.conf on laptop or "ipconfig /all | findstr DNS" in case of windows >) My laptop and the server are in two different countries. Btw, laptop also run FreeBSD. >2) check server is accessible (ping <YOUR_SERVER_IP> from laptop) Yes, the server is accessible (ping <YOUR_SERVER_IP> from the laptop. >3) check server is accessible via TCP/53 ("telnet <YOUR_SERVER_IP> 53" from >your laptop) No, there was a reverse DNS error here. It was pointing to the Reverse DNS server of the data centre. Now its been corrected: telnet <YOUR_SERVER_IP> 53 Trying <YOUR_SERVER_IP>... Connected to ns1.mydomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. >4) check firewall on server and/or devices between server and laptop, it may >block requests No firewall on the server yet. >5) check your server is configured to use the same DNS: cat /etc/resolv.conf > nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver other_ip1 nameserver other_ip2 Although the Reverse DNS is now been corrected, still cannot ping as from the laptop: ping www.mydomain.com ping: cannot resolve www.mydomain.com: Host name lookup failure Any ideas? Regards Unga _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"