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Set wsl2 to use host nameserver
I'm using wsl2 on Windows 11, and I recently encountered a problem where when I change networks, the wsl2 dns (nameserver at resolve.conf) address doesn't update, to match, and there for cannot lookup ...
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Ubuntu App for Windows sporadically gets a “Temporary Failure in Name Resolution” error
I have the Ubuntu app for Windows (downloaded from the Microsoft store) and I keep getting a temporary failure in name resolution error.
ping: google.com: Temporary failure in name resolution
This ...
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Overriding a CNAME within a CNAME chain works on Ubuntu but not Windows
Best practices aside (not having CNAME chains), I am curious to know why this is happening.
I have the following:
CNAME subdomain.example.com -> CNAME other.example.com -> A 172.17.0.1
If I wanted ...
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How to join to the domain, without changing the DNS settings
I have my Samba4 setup in the EC2 & I can join the windows clients fine, if I assign my instance public IP as the DNS server. But my requirement is, irrespective of any DNS IP assigned to the ...
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DNS not working in Bash (Ubuntu) on Windows using VPN
I've just started testing out "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows", and I like it!
Just, the problem is that I need to use VPN in order to access our backend and developer servers. And when trying to (for ...
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DNS query only works for Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) but not short name
This is a Linux (Ubuntu 13.10) VM guest in the Windows host & environment. When doing DNS query, only the FQDN entries have returns while the short names are not (see below). Why is that?
My ...
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Windows DNS sometimes can't pick up my VM's hostname
RE: unresolved hostname / host not found / host unknown
The VM is VirtualBox running Ubuntu under Win8, using the bridged networks.
It almost always able to register itself to my company's Windows ...
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set fallback ip address for hostname in Windows and Ubuntu
I have 2 machines that switch back and forth between networks. One network has both configured in the DNS table, so that they can reach each other on that one. However, on the other network, they ...
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Host your own website and dns server
I pay big money yearly for all of my website hosting, domain registrars, etc.
My IP is dynamic and my provider allows different http ports. On my local webserver, I have access to my websites like ...
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