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Linux guest can't see Windows host DNS

Asked by jherington in VMware, Linux Networking, Windows Networking

Tags: VMWare Linux RHEL5 Windows DNS

Hello,
I have just installed VMWare workstation 6.5 on a test box running Windows Server 2003 which is acting as the one and only AD and DNS (this machine is going to host a new demo website). Anyway, my guest is RHEL5. When I setup Bind on the guest everything works perfect on the guest (browsing, NSLookup, etc...) but as soon as I change the guest DNS to point to my Windows host (running DNS), the guest can not find the name server and NSLookup fails. If I run nslookup from the host command-line it finds the name server without a problem. I can ping the guest from the host and the host from the guest using either IP or name.

Things I have done:
1) Added A record to my Windows DNS for the guest IP
2) All IP addresses are static
3) Both the host an guest share the same network 192.168.1.x/255.255.255.0
4) Guest is setup with default VMWare network choices i.e. Bridged with NAT settings
5) VMWare did add several A records to the Windows host DNS?
6) I have a hosts file on guest that looks like:
    192.168.1.105 itsa3.freedomtech.local itsa3
    192.168.1.120 freedomsrv1.freedomtech.local freedomsrv1
    order host, bind
    mdns off
    multi on
7) Guest resolv.conf looks like:
    domain .freedomsrv1.freedomtech.local
    nameserver 192.168.1.120
8) My host DNS is to itself and everything works fine.
9) My cable modem acts as the DHCP but both the host and guest use static IPs.

I really need both the host and guest to use the same domain in order to avoid x-domain issues. Any help would be very greatly appreciated!!

Thank you!
 
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