DNS help needed

[tthaler]

Dear Admins

I did setup almost successfully SLS 10.6.2 on a Mac Mini newest modell.
Now I have some DNS issues.
I do DHCP on the same server and the clients do get there IP numbers according the MAC address.

They are getting the following entries.
IP: 192.168.99.x
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.99.254
DNS: 192.168.99.1 (my SLS server), 195.186.1.162, 195.186.4.162 (DNS of my provider)

I can surf the internet without problems.
But if I try to access the server over Server-Admin, I’m not able to use the DNS name server.private, I have to use either the IP of the server or server.local to connect.

DNS is setup the following way:
1.99.168.192.in-addr.arpa. is 192.168.99.1 with name server.private.
99.168.192.in-addr.arpa. with something like 192.168.99.11 with name thomas.server.private.
server.private. with thomas (Computer) and value 192.168.99.11 as well as server.private. (Computer) with value 192.168.99.1

Now if I do a lookup with Network Utility of lets say DNS name server.private I don’t get a replay. Even if I tell Network Utility to use 192.168.99.1 as DNS server.

If I do the same on the server I get the following replay.
„Lookup“ has been started …

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> -x 192.168.99.11 +multiline +nocomments +nocmd +noquestion +nostats +search
;; global options: +cmd
11.99.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 10800 IN PTR thomas.server.private.
99.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 10800 IN NS server.private.
server.private. 10800 IN A 192.168.99.1

What I can say is, that this worked until yesterday on every client machine in my network. Now it doesn’t work anymore.

Does anyone have a idea what’s going wrong and how to fix that without a complete new install of SLS?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Kind regards
Thomas Thaler

[tthaler]

The problem is solved.
I had to remove the NDS servers of my ISP in the DHCP setting and enter them as forwarders.
Now it works again.

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