[Chester LUG] A little help DNS weirdness in Linux mint. Help required

[Stuart Burns]

Hi Everyone,

I decided to make the jump from Windows 7 to Linux Mint rather than end up
on the MS pay to play that is coming with Windows 10 in year 2 (I kid you
not!)

Anyhow, for the most part the install went ok (There was some docking
station weirdness but turning it off and on again fixed it. Go figure)

Anyhow, the real problem is the DNS. I have set up my DHCP client so it
gets it's address automatically.

I am able to resolve my internal hosts without issue..
thinkpad stuart # nslookup
> vc
Server:        192.168.0.201
Address:    192.168.0.201#53

Name:    vc.test.local
Address: 192.168.0.204

External works fine..

> linux.org
Server:        192.168.0.201
Address:    192.168.0.201#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    linux.org
Address: 107.170.40.56


However, when trying to connect to an internal URL using the FQDN mentioned
above, I get a timeout about not being able to resolve the address. Well
weird. I have checked in Firefox and it is set to direct connection.

The application is up and working,  It worked without issue in Windows 7.
Does anyone have any ideas about this weird behavior ?

It just seems that Firefox cannot resolve internal addresses but fine with
everything else.

Regards

Stu

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Stuart Burns
E: stuart.james.burns at gmail.com
M: [redacted]
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