Hank Barta
Occasional Visitor
Hi folks,
I'm delighted to find that my RT-AC68W (yes, the pretty white one.
) automatically provides DNS services for my humble home LAN. No more static IP reservation and having to schlep /etc/hosts files around from host to host whenever I get a new PC or other device.
Except when it doesn't work.
I'm fooling around with a Raspberry Pi (2B) and getting mixed results. When I load up Raspbian, I can access it from other hosts using the default host name 'raspberrypi' and I was able to change the host name to killarney (*) and that worked also.
As I explore the Pi, I'm trying other versions of Linux. (I normally run Linux by choice on my other hosts as well.) I'm working with a stripped version of Ubuntu installed by Berryboot. It's really stripped. No dns. No ping. Not even ifconfig by default. Of course those things are only an apt-get away but there are also some configuration issues that come along with that. For example the hosts file was empty on initial install! 'resolv.conf' was pointing at the Google name server (8.8.8.8) which will not resolve names on my LAN.
Another quirk about this is resolving the Pi from other hosts. The host shows up on the AC68's client list (by name) but if I try to access it by name from other hosts on my LAN it comes up as unknown. I have no doubt that once I resolve the original problem (pun intended ) this will also be fixed.
This is really a Linux admin question and I'm sure I could find the answer if I knew what to search for. I do not know what this host name advertising facility is called so I don't know what to search for. I've searched for "DNS advertising" and not found anything useful.
Any clues as to how to get this going or what to search for are most welcome. Thanks!
(*) I've been naming hosts after trees so it only seemed right to pick a raspberry variety for my Pi.
I'm delighted to find that my RT-AC68W (yes, the pretty white one.
) automatically provides DNS services for my humble home LAN. No more static IP reservation and having to schlep /etc/hosts files around from host to host whenever I get a new PC or other device.Except when it doesn't work.
I'm fooling around with a Raspberry Pi (2B) and getting mixed results. When I load up Raspbian, I can access it from other hosts using the default host name 'raspberrypi' and I was able to change the host name to killarney (*) and that worked also.
As I explore the Pi, I'm trying other versions of Linux. (I normally run Linux by choice on my other hosts as well.) I'm working with a stripped version of Ubuntu installed by Berryboot. It's really stripped. No dns. No ping. Not even ifconfig by default. Of course those things are only an apt-get away but there are also some configuration issues that come along with that. For example the hosts file was empty on initial install! 'resolv.conf' was pointing at the Google name server (8.8.8.8) which will not resolve names on my LAN.
Another quirk about this is resolving the Pi from other hosts. The host shows up on the AC68's client list (by name) but if I try to access it by name from other hosts on my LAN it comes up as unknown. I have no doubt that once I resolve the original problem (pun intended
) this will also be fixed.This is really a Linux admin question and I'm sure I could find the answer if I knew what to search for. I do not know what this host name advertising facility is called so I don't know what to search for. I've searched for "DNS advertising" and not found anything useful.
Any clues as to how to get this going or what to search for are most welcome. Thanks!
(*) I've been naming hosts after trees so it only seemed right to pick a raspberry variety for my Pi.
