Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Weird issue when pinging FQDN

2011-03-31 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:18:27PM -0500, Frederick C. Damen wrote: I suspect you may find the cause of your issue to do with the fact that ping resolves names with resources, i.e. files etc, local to the machine before finding a DNS server to resolve the name. Dig I am lead to believe

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Weird issue when pinging FQDN

2011-03-31 Thread Tyekanyk
Its weird because the only thing that changed between the 'it works' to 'it does not work' state was that I had to reinstall my home server (oblivion) and my desktop (floyd), while tws85 (a virtual machine running on oblivion) remained the same, as well my laptop which name is 'lobrutto' and shows

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Weird issue when pinging FQDN

2011-03-30 Thread Tyekanyk
Any input in this problem ? I am almost sure that is Linux related... im missing something... btw, I forgot in my last post to put the info for oblivion (the server that I am actually pinging), its on /etc/hosts as it should, on the server. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Tyekanyk

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Weird issue when pinging FQDN

2011-03-30 Thread Frederick C. Damen
I suspect you may find the cause of your issue to do with the fact that ping resolves names with resources, i.e. files etc, local to the machine before finding a DNS server to resolve the name. Dig I am lead to believe goes straight to the DNS server. I had a problem arising from a machine