Hello!
I have a problem that drives me mad. Apologies if this has already been discussed but I couldn't find a solution by using the forum search.
The situation:
A box running ASG V8 (8.102) as gateway between an internal LAN (containing a Windows workgroup, no domain) and a DSL internet connection. The ASG is also setup to solve DNS requests or forward them to the ISP's DNS server. All this works fine.
Inside the LAN, there are various clients that have names like "Carl", "Anton", "Otto" etc. To resolve their names, I have created static DNS entries in the ASG in the form of:
carl -> 10.0.3.38
otto -> 10.0.3.56
The problem:
The problem is that the names don't resolve. If I enter "ping -4 carl" on a client I get nowhere ("Ping request could not find host carl"). However, if I change the entries to an FQDN like "carl.here" and then ping it, it works.
The thing is that changing all static entries to FQDNs doesn't help me as I need to be able to resolve "carl". Of course I could setup a separate DNS server to resolve the names, but I'd rather have the ASG do that. Before the ASG was put up it's role was served by a cheap $50 Netgear router, and its internal DNS server had no problems resolving non-FQDN names like "carl", "otto" and such without problems. Surely there must be a way that the ASG can do that, right?
So my question now is:
How can I get the ASG to resolve non-FQDN static DNS entries?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
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