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General Tech => Operating System => : lucid June 29, 2014, 09:08:09 PM

: VM Networking and dnsmasq
: lucid June 29, 2014, 09:08:09 PM

I've got a Arch DNS server(dnsmasq) and it runs a couple of VMs. These VMs are configured for bridged networking so they all how their own IP on the subnet. One machine in particular, a WinXP machine, I am trying to configure to use the host server as it's main DNS. I set it up to do so but when I try nslookup it consistently uses the secondary DNS server with an error:

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Can't find server name for 192.168.0.7: Non-existent domain
I can ping 192.168.0.7 from XP and everything, but it won't use it as it's server. Is this a problem with VM networking?

: Re: VM Networking and dnsmasq
: voodoo July 13, 2014, 12:57:18 AM

Sounds like there is no PTR record for the name server.

: Re: VM Networking and dnsmasq
: lucid July 13, 2014, 05:42:42 AM

It's been solved, but unfortunately I can't exactly explain why. It's just a mystery of Windows..

: Re: VM Networking and dnsmasq
: voodoo July 13, 2014, 06:24:13 AM

*Windows magical hand waving*