I am trying to set up a server(PHP/HTTPD) in CentOS. When I use ipaddress to access the website its working fine. But using domain name its not working. So I used ping command to check.
ping 246.246.44.66 // Working fine
ping example.com // ping: unknown host example.com
Here is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
DEVICE="eth0"
TYPE="Ethernet"
IPV6INIT="no"
MTU="1500"
NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
ONBOOT="yes"
BOOTPROTO="static"
IPADDR="246.246.44.66"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
GATEWAY="246.246.44.71"
/etc/sysconfig/network:
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=example.com
/etc/hosts:
246.246.44.66 example.com
127.0.0.1 localhost
/etc/resolv.conf:
domain example.com
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 246.246.44.65
nameserver 246.246.44.64
while using route command
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
246.246.44.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1002 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1003 0 0 eth1
default 246.246.44.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Please help me. Also correct me if I am wrong because I am programmer not a server admin
Best Answer
We found out it was a DNS problem
first we added the and domainname.com to the /etc/hosts file of the workstation. This resolved the issue. So we concluded it was a DNS issue.
after that we queried his DNS servers with 'dig @' which gave no results. Without the proper dns records the workstation will never find the correct hosts.