Static external host records (IOS)

[Michiel Beenen]

Hello all,

Cisco 2911 here.

Ive been trying to make static host records to resolve to an internal adress.

For example ip host trailers.apple.com 192.168.1.4 is what i typed into conf t.

It saved it, its in the configuration now but whenever i ping i keep getting:

ping trailers.apple.com   

Translating "trailers.apple.com"...domain server (2001:4860:4860::8844) (2001:4860:4860::8888) (8.8.4.4) (8.8.8.8)

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.1.4, timeout is 2 seconds:

!!!!!

Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 1/1/1 ms

When i from any client try to ping it keeps going to the official web adress IP.

Any idea how that is possible? and is there a way to make sure it does what i want?
Thank you.

[Richard Burts]

The ip host command allows you to create a supplement or an over-ride to DNS. So you configured an ip host for trailers.apple.com pointing to an internal address. Now the router will use that in preference to anything it would get from a remote DNS server. And when you ping from the 2911 it works as expected. When you ping from a client in your network it does not work. And the reason is that the ip host is essentially a local function which works on the router.

HTH

Rick

[Michiel Beenen]

Ok, so then my question is, how can I make it so i can make this work for all devices on the LAN?

[cadet alain]

Hi,

you'd have to configure your router as a DNS server: and send this DNS server via DHCP to your clients.

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/6248-102-1-20340/DNS%20Configuration%20of%20Cisco%20Router%20as%20DNS%20Server.pdf

Regards

Alain

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[Michiel Beenen]

It is configured as that and all clients are set to 192.168.1.1 (which is the Routers IP adress).

[cadet alain]

Hi,

post your router config, as well as a host network config also clear the dns cache on the host and do a nslookup for another machine and post the output.

Regards

Alain

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