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[pa]

Hi,

What is interesting to see is the output of the commands:

cat /etc/resolv.conf

and if installted

dig bubba (and also dig bubba.local)

This will show how your linux computer is trying to lookup names.

/PA

[drewbb]

Dear Pa

Thanks for the reply. But the bloody thing has broken again.

It merely blinks and has a ticking sound like a clock. I wouldn't mind if I 'd played football with it but all it does is sit on my desk.

The reset button won't work. Its the second time its broken and I am very disappointed in this product, its been a waste of money.

Drew

[drewbb]

Dear All

Thanks to the absolutely phenomenal response from excito ( I am talking minutes here) its going back for repair. I'll take up when I get it back.

Drew

[drewbb]

I was asked ( sometime ago!) to provide the following information so why my little Linux box won't see the the Bubba. The Bubba has a fixed ip address on my lan and I can access it via that. BTW the output means nothing to me. Can anybody shed some light?

Thanks

Drew

root@eee:/home/drew# cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 192.168.0.1
nameserver 192.168.0.1
root@eee:/home/drew# dig bubba

; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P1 <<>> bubba
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 33120
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bubba. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 900 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2009113000 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 109 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Nov 30 09:41:11 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

root@eee:/home/drew# dig bubba.local

; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P1 <<>> bubba.local
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 62057
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bubba.local. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 900 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2009113000 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 63 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Nov 30 09:41:31 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104

[pa]

The reason is that since you are using a fix IP for bubba, Bubba does not request an IP and in that request tell the dhcp server its name.

Usually the dhcp server and is linked to the dns server so that names presented on the network will be available in the dns, but since this never takes place, your dns will not know the name of bubba.

You will either have to (if possible) update your dns to know the IP of bubba, or edit your hosts file to add an entry to point the name bubba to the fixed ip.

/PA

[drewbb]

Hi Pa
Thanks for the quick response.

I have removed the address reservation for the Bubba off the LAN.

You will either have to (if possible) update your dns to know the IP of bubba, or edit your hosts file to add an entry to point the name bubba to the fixed ip.

As my router/modem acts as a DHCP router, the IP address of the Bubba now becomes random within my LAN IP range.
Is my DNS my modem/router? Or ist it something like DynDNS? Also my hosts file looks like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 eee

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Thanks for the advice

Drew

[pa]

Hi,

Your router is most likely acting as both dns and dhcp server.
So if you can, specify a "static" dhcp lease for bubba so that it will always get the same IP from your router.

Or, leave bubba with a static IP and add an entry to your hosts file:

192.168.0.x bubba

where "bubba" is the name you want to use for your bubba (this acutally does not have anything to do with the name set on bubba, just the name you want to use from you workstation) and the "x" is the static ip of bubba.

/PA

[drewbb]

Hi,

So if you can, specify a "static" dhcp lease for bubba so that it will always get the same IP from your router.

Sorry, but that is the very thing you suggested that I undo from the router. I just took the address reservation off! You said that and I quote below

The reason is that since you are using a fix IP for bubba, Bubba does not request an IP and in that request tell the dhcp server its name

Totally confused now.

Drew

[pa]

Then maybe I misunderstood you earlier.
I thought that you had set a static IP in Bubbas UI?

/PA

[drewbb]

Dear Pa

No I had merely reserved an ip address on my lan so that if I wanted to access the Bubba I did not have to access the router as admin to find out what ip address it had assigned to be able to acess the bubba. I just stuck with the same one 192.168.0.6.

So does my previous post about the cat /etc/resolv.conf mean anything?

Drew