Hi,

I am having trouble with name resolution on a newly created W2K3
VMWare Image, and I have no explanation what is going on. The image
has two interfaces, one between VMware server and host and one LAN
interface. The image runs in bridged mode in VMWare Server 1.03. There
is a DNS in the VMWare IF obviously provided by the VMWare DHCP, but
the relevant (and working) DNS entries are set for the LAN-IF. The
VMWare-DNS does actually not answer (which I wouldn't assume anyhow),
and my understanding was that then automagically the next best DNS
would be used. But doing a nslookup just fails on the VMWare DNS --
and that's it. It does not try the others. If I ask explicitly for
using one of these by providing them for nslookup, the lookup works
fine.

This is the output from nslookup w/ and w/o explicit server (domain
name "blurred"... :-)

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C:\>nslookup proxy.a.b.c
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.228.1: Timed out
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.228.1

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
C:\>
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C:\>nslookup proxy.a.b.c 10.17.122.10
Server: dns01.a.b.c
Address: 10.17.122.10

Name: proxy.a.b.c
Addresses: 10.204.5.43, 10.204.5.41
C:\>
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C:\>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : w2k3-test
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : localdomain

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet
Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-A0-35-3A
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.19.76.80
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.252.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.19.76.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.17.122.10
10.17.121.30

Ethernet adapter VMWare Adapter:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : localdomain
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet
Adapter #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-A0-35-44
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.228.129
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.228.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.228.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, January 24, 2008
1:04:12 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, January 24, 2008
1:34:12 PM
C:\>

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Any clues why the DNS resolution does not switch to the LAN IF when
the VMware does not respond at all?

Thx, HJR