Q: DNS settings for intranet server not being a DNS
I have an OS X server that provides some local services on the local subnet (behind a NAT). We moved to a new office and installed a new firewall / local DNS, and all the other machines can resolve local machine names. But the OS X Server just resolves them all to the gateway/firewall machine, instead of resolving them to local machines.
If I turn off the Server App DNS, the names resolve. But I seem to remember that I'm not supposed to turn off the OS X server's DNS, rather set it up to forward requests to the Gateway. Sadly the Google Machine isn't helping me, because every google phrase I can think of about OS X Server and DNS settings explain how to use your OS X Server as a DNS server for the machines on your network -- which is not what I want to do!
What I think should work is listing the Gateway as a forwarding server, and then telling the OS X machine to "Perform lookups for only some clients" and selecting "The Server Itself" in the "Edit Lookup Clients" dialog. But that doesn't work.
Any help appreciated, thanks.
Posted on Sep 13, 2016 4:11 PM