devblog @ x-sphere.com » bind http://devblog.x-sphere.com random babblings of a product manager and coder Wed, 16 May 2012 17:48:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta4-20766 ubuntu and hostnames http://devblog.x-sphere.com/2006/11/10/ubuntu-and-hostname/ http://devblog.x-sphere.com/2006/11/10/ubuntu-and-hostname/#comments Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:51:02 +0000 Matt Brotherson http://devblog.x-sphere.com/index.php/2006/11/10/ubuntu-and-hostname/ So it seems that without a good DNS server (BIND, MS DNS) our Ubuntu machines can’t communicate with our windows machines and vice-versa. Apparently windows uses net bios for dns resolving when using nslookup which isn’t available to linux. Our solution is going to be to either implement an Ubuntu server utilizing BIND or set up a windows 2003 domain controller and install the Microsoft DNS server to that machine. This problem has presented itself many times when trying to install MicroStrategy Web Universal or CenterCast’s dashboard.

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