Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-27 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Oct 2024 at 11:45:18 (-0400), eben@ยน wrote: > On 10/25/24 07:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:33:24 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > I was assuming someone setting up a server of some kind would not be > > > running a DHCP client, which of course can be done with a reservati

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-25 Thread eben
On 10/25/24 07:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:33:24 +0100, Joe wrote: I was assuming someone setting up a server of some kind would not be running a DHCP client, which of course can be done with a reservation, but it's another potential point of failure that a fixed address

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:33:24 +0100, Joe wrote: > I was assuming someone setting up a server of some kind would not be > running a DHCP client, which of course can be done with a reservation, > but it's another potential point of failure that a fixed address > configuration doesn't have. I've s

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-25 Thread tomas
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:36:20AM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 08:03:43 +0100 > Chris Green wrote: > > > > Yes, OP here again, that's why I said in my original post "(I know > > they're not quite the same thing, but the result works OK)" > > I think (on Ubuntu it did anyway) that sys

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-25 Thread Joe
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:31:18 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote: > > In an installation not using a DHCP client, you would be expected to > > make your own DNS and gateway arrangements along with the IP > > address. > > OK. I'm guessing that's not r

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-25 Thread Chris Green
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [-- text/plain, size 1.2K, charset utf-8, 34 lines, encoding quoted-printable > --] > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 04:31:18PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > In an installation not using a DHCP client, you would be ex

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-25 Thread Chris Green
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote: > > In an installation not using a DHCP client, you would be expected to > > make your own DNS and gateway arrangements along with the IP address. > > OK. I'm guessing that's not relevant here, though. > > > If > > you're

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-24 Thread Joe
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:16:30 +0100 Chris Green wrote: > I have just installed Debian Bookworm on my backup server which is a > Fujitsu Esprimo Q556 with an 8TB external USB drive for backup. I was > previously running xubuntu there. > > It has all gone very straightforwrdly, the actual installa

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-24 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 04:31:18PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote: > > In an installation not using a DHCP client, you would be expected to > > make your own DNS and gateway arrangements along with the IP address. > > OK. I'm guessing that's not re

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-24 Thread Chris Green
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 20:16:30 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > It works fine though. The /etc/resolv.conf is:- > > > > domain zbmc.eu > > search zbmc.eu > > nameserver 192.168.1.1 > > > > which simply means all DNS gets passed to my LAN's DNS server. Is that >

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 21:24:17 +0100, Joe wrote: > In an installation not using a DHCP client, you would be expected to > make your own DNS and gateway arrangements along with the IP address. OK. I'm guessing that's not relevant here, though. > If > you're not running Network Manager nor a res

Re: DNS on minimal new installation

2024-10-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 20:16:30 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > It works fine though. The /etc/resolv.conf is:- > > domain zbmc.eu > search zbmc.eu > nameserver 192.168.1.1 > > which simply means all DNS gets passed to my LAN's DNS server. Is that > what one gets on a minimal installati