Lan dns domain

Hi alls,
I have just set up a local dns with the following configuration:

nameserver:192.168.1.22 ( dns server uses bind)
router.local:192.168.1.1
hostname1.local:192.168.1.22
hostname2.local:192.168.1.24(www,mail...)
hostname3.local:192.168.1.23

After setting up i dig hostname2.local it points to 192.168.1.24,i can access its web server by typing http://192.168.1.24 but when i type http://hostname2.local i cann't access it,so my question is that why i couldn't acsess http://hostname2.local and what should i do to solve the problem.Please help me.
Here i attach the configuration files please have a look at them.

I don't think your problem is related to your dns configuration
because when you use dig to get the ip is working great,
so this means that your dns server configuration is good.
If the configuration at your dns server was wrong then dig
will not be able to get the info.
Did you try the dig command and the web access at the
same pc?

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http://linuxrc.org

Oh i don't use the same pc, i use another one in lan because the dns pc doesn't have a browser ... strange thing that i can't access http://hostname2.local .Sorry if you can tell me your opinion about this.

Did you config the other pc that have a browser to use
the dns server that you have been configure, the one
that you use for the dig command?


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Free Dynamic DNS and Static DNS Services
http://linuxrc.org

Thanks for your help a lot ,a very good solution,i am using openbsd for dns(192.168.1.22) and linux for web server and winxp for another lan pc.Please tell me how i can configure the linux pc and winxp to use dns server of the machine 192.168.1.22.Again ,thanks you very much!

For linux edit: /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.22

For XP I really don't know, I never used it before, sorry.

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Free Dynamic DNS and Static DNS Services
http://linuxrc.org

I have edited resolv.conf like what you told but somehow still now i couldn't access the local site,though i in linux when i dig it understands and points to the local ip ,again wait for your suggestion,thanks!

If you dig the host-name and you get the IP, then everything
is working (you succeed to resolv the ip), but if you say that
from the browser you can't access, only with the IP, than I
really don't know what to say, because I think the problem
is related to your browser. I'm sorry, but I don't have any
experience with the browser.


__________________________________________
Free Dynamic DNS and Static DNS Services
http://linuxrc.org

Anyway ,thank a lot murphy_young!

Don't give up yet. Give me a turn at helping you. One thing I love to have people do is use "ping". Not to check the status of a server, but to see if the SYSTEM successfully resolves the domain. So at the client pc, execute the following commands and attach a copy so that I can look at it.

ping hostname2.local
dig hostname2.local

>>>murphy_young

For future reference, know that nearly all programs including browsers on a system makes a system call "gethostbyname" to resolve domains. gethostbyname resolves the domain first from the hosts file, then using the dns servers in resolv.conf. This is true for both linux and windows (even windows can have a resolv.conf, but normally this info is stored in the registry). This is why dig can work, but a browser may fail. dig doesn't call gethostbyname, and instead communicates via sockets to resolve domains.