FTP, BIND, VMWARE and openfire

[tklMe]

I have two guest operating systems of CentOS installed in VMware Server. One is the server and one is the client. On the server I have installed BIND and set up two servers--> server1 and server2.

server1 is to cover dns, nfs and samba. (192.168.139.130)
server2 is to cover ftp, www and im. (192.168.139.131)

When I am on my client and I type ftp 192.168.139.131 I get route not found. If I type 192.168.139.130 then I am able to get to the other system. If the ftp server is 192.168.139.131 then shouldn't that be the one I type in?

When I am on the client or server system and type nslookup, it gives me all the appropriate server information for both server1 and server2. If I type in samba.x.local it comes back with 192.168.139.130 and the correct server. If I type ftp.x.local it comes back with the correct IP and server.

I cannot ping server2 but I can ping server1. So why does nslookup work?

I have installed the openfire on the CentOS server system and Spark on on the client system. I cannot get to openfire via server2 but can get to it via server1. Again, if I set up BIND for two servers and server2 is suppose to cover IM and FTP, why isn't Spark able to find openfire on server2? Why do I have to type in the IP of server1 and not the IP of server2?

I hope I've given all the required info. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[guus.leeuw.jr]

problem with DNS? Get the Bind book... Also, what's the contents of /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf?

[tklMe]

I have discovered my error. I am an idiot. Thanks for responding tho!

[guus.leeuw.jr]

It would be most helpful for the forums to get some sort of indication as to how you fixed your problem!

[tklMe]

I made the mistake of not fully understanding BIND and virtual machines. When I set up BIND I had assumed the IP addresses and other settings I placed in there were virtual. What I had failed to realize is that BIND uses actual settings so I needed to load in another virtual machine and use that IP as my second server (the one I had originally set up in BIND) so FTP and IM could work thru it. I ended up with 3 virtual machines, one as a client, one as server1 and one as server2. Before I just had two--the client and server1.

In my defense I can only say I am really new to virtual machines and anything Linux. I am more of a hardware person.