So I am working on my home server. I installed docker and use a dnsmasq container as my dns server to resolve local ip adresses.

Laptop and server are both linux (ubuntu LTS 24.4)

What works:

  • ‘resolvectl status’ shows the ip of my dns server
  • i can ping the ip of the dns server (that will run other stuff like nextcloud soon as well)
  • i can use nslookup to resovle server.local to the correct ip address (even after changing the entry, so its not the cache in my laptop)

what does not work:

  • i can not ping server.local (- for testing i have to stop the systemd-resolved.service to run the dnsmasq server, or else there are port collisions, but that should not be the problem i guess. I am happy to hear your solution :))
  • i can also not use ssh to log in to server.local, ip address works

What am i missing?

Thanks a lot already! BTW: ZFS is crazy nice :D

  • Darkassassin07English
    3·
    3 days ago

    what does not work:

    • i can not ping server.local (- for testing i have to stop the systemd-resolved.service to run the dnsmasq server, or else there are port collisions, but that should not be the problem i guess. I am happy to hear your solution :))
    • i can also not use ssh to log in to server.local, ip address works

    Have you added “server.local” as a DNS record in your dnsmasq container, pointing to your servers LAN IP? Sounds like dnsmasq isn’t resolving that name, which would lead to both of these ‘failures’.

    • WbrJr@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      So in the dnsmasq.config file is this entry: ‘address=/server.local/192.168.178.10’ and using nslookup it resolves it correctly

      • Max@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Does it resolve correctly from the laptop or the server. What about resolvectl query server.local on the laptop?