I have a centOS system(embedded and has very binaries) with the following /etc/hosts.
$cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost
Also the host is assigned a DNS server which returns some invalid IP for the domain name lookup of localhost. But I cannot avoid a connection to this DNS due to some network restrictions.
My question is, when I already have a valid /etc/hosts file why is the system querying the DNS for localhost? And how can I stop that?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Check that you have files listed before dns for the hosts entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
[me#home]$ grep "^hosts" /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns
If dns comes first, then your system will always query DNS to resolve hostnames before falling back to /etc/hosts.
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My cPanel server is resolving a URL wrong. The website example.com is hosted on my cPanel server at ip 1.0.0.1. In a script I am attempting a cURL command to cp.example.com which is hosted on another server at 2.0.0.2. My server is resolving cp.example.com to the IP of 1.0.0.1. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
It seems like your dns settings for cp.example.com are not visible on the host where you are running your script. You should check the dns settings for cp.example.com. You may also want to contact the Cpanel support
When you make a cURL request from a source hosted on your cPanel server the IP for the domain is first resolved locally, if it's not found in your Server's DNS zones it will be resolved from your configuration at /etc/resolv.conf
You can test to see which IP your server is resolving this by logging via SSH and pinging it
Executed from your cPanel Server
ping cp.example.com
I can think of two workarounds for this issue:
If example.com's DNS zone is hosted in your cPanel account
Go to cPanel -> Zone Editor
Open the DNS zone for example.com
Find the A record for cp.example.com
Change it to 2.0.0.2
If you have root - edit your WHM / cPanel Server's /etc/hosts file
root#server #: vim /etc/hosts
// 2.0.0.2 cp.example.com
I am working on RHEL 6.3, the IP address of this server is 172.xxx.xxx.xx and hostname is build01.xxx.com
I have a DNS entries of client server, I have configured that in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and in /etc/resolv.conf
[root#build01 ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search 100.xxx.x
nameserver 203.xxx.xxx.xxx ##Primary DNS
nameserver 203.xxx.xxx.xxx ###Secondary DNS
[root#build01 etc]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
172.xxx .xxx.xx build01.xxx.com build01
[root#build01 ~]# hostname
build01.xxxx.com
My issue is when I hit the URL with hostname(buil01.xxx.in) it does not work, but it works with IP (172.xxx.xxx.xx)
This is the error which i get in browser if I type hostname
Host Not Found
**DNS error (the host name of the page you are looking for does not exist) or Server did not accept the connection.
Please check that the host name has been spelled correctly.**
Internet works in this machine only issue is with hostname
Please help me what I am missing to configure
Thanks
Roopa
The search line in resolv.conf should list the local domain. So change:
search 100.xxx.x
to:
search xxx.com
Actually you should also change search to domain. For more information have a look at man resolv.conf.
I downloaded Apache2 and it is currently running. I typed in my IP address and it brings me to the "It Works!" page, however when I type in localhost or 127.0.0.1 I receive an error. Can someone tell me whats up?
check 127.0.0.1 able to ping or not with same machine.
check /etc/hosts file having 127.0.0.1 entry or not?
check in apache configuration file Listen 0.0.0.0:80 or not?
I am trying to install Gitlab on a mac server 10.8. I follow a procedure and when talking about configure Gitlab they ask to change "gitlab.example.com" to the FQDN of your host serving gitlab.
To get this do I need to type : hostname and make change in the gitlab.yml ?
Thank.
You can try, as in "How can I find the domain (fqdn) for my machine if hostname doesn't return domain info and domainname returns empty?":
host `hostname`
host `hostname` | sed 's/\([^ ]*\)\ .*/\1/'
Or you could try using your ip address.
The FQDN is the base url you're pointing to the server, e.g. http:example.com as opposed to http:example.com/subdirectory/
An easy way to see it if you already have one is to type less /etc/hostname
If you don't have a hostname, you definitely should have an IP address, you could also use your IP instead of the hostname.
I have a centOS virtual machine with 3 virtual hosts. It worked fine until this moment when I lost access to the dns server. Now the hosts can't be resolved. Can any1 tell me if I can configure some static routes or something to the virtual hosts?
Print screen with the httpd response:
P.S. I would prefere not to configure a DNS server since the old one will start tomorrow again.
In your /etc/hosts you can map IP addresses to hostnames:
127.0.0.1 example.com
127.0.0.1 example.net
// etc...