DNS Registration problem

[cryos]

Hi Folks,

Im having a nasty problem that i am not able to resolve, im running Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS. Basically i need the server to register in a certain DNS Zone, however its not doing this for whatever reason. The zone in question does alow registrations.

i can obviously ping myself from the server but other clients cant ping by name or fqdn. Have removed the acctual FQDN for security purposes

/etc/hosts file:

16.49.97.200    iaxweb
16.49.97.200    iaxweb.emea.removed.net
16.49.97.200    iaxweb.irl.removed.com
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

/etc/network/interfaces file:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 16.49.97.200
netmask 255.255.254.0
gateway 16.49.96.1

/etc/resolv.conf

domain emea.removed.net
search emea.removed.net
nameserver 16.110.135.52
nameserver 16.110.135.51

/etc/hostname

iaxweb

Any help is much appriciated

[elija]

The hosts file is only available to the machine it is on. If this is a small network you could add the server to each machines host file but a better solution would be to add the servers name / ip information to the appropriate zone file on the DNS server.

[cryos]

Hi elija,

Thanks for the responce, however previously when we built the system it automatically registered to our DNS servers and was pingable by clients but for some reason this one isnt; In essence this is what im looking for; Hostfile entry for 10k+ machines isnt practical in this instance..

[elija]

DNS is definitely the way to go. I don't know how to get it automatically added except via DHCP which seems odd for a server. Normally you have to add it to the DNS Zone file.

[rcgreen]

You will probably have to refresh your memory by asking
the people who run the dns server what protocol to use.
You probably have the utility on your server, but it just
isn't configured.