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Beginner Setup - Hostnames rather than IP's

AmanHalai

Quite new to having a hardware firewall (running UTM Home edition) - literally second day of having the box on the network after several nightmares with NIC's. 

I've read the instructions on the Sophos website with regard to DNS BP's - and it talks about how to go about setting things up so the hostnames show rather than IP's - https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/120283.aspx

 I'm not a complete novice with this kinda stuff - but PTR's - errrrrm

I've set the UTM to be the main router (and DNS - so in the DNS list, it has a Level3 one, a Plusnet one and itself at 192.168.1.1). How would I set it up? I have no AD DNS's or anything like that. How would the PTR work? (Address range is 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.254

Might be a silly question, I am aware

Cheers!



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  • 0 in reply to AmanHalai

    What's not working?  Please insert a picture.

    Cheers - Bob

     
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  • 0 in reply to BAlfson

    I'm still unable to access anything on the network internally by hostnames - networked printers are not working unless IP's are used, cannot access SMB shares etc. Tried following the instructions but still no ball. 

    Starting to think it could be an error in the UTM installation possibly so wondering a fresh install might be a good idea? Should functionality such as reaching internal network shares by typing \\[machinename]\[sharename] be working as default? 

  • 0 in reply to AmanHalai

    I'm not a Microsoft guy, but I bet that might work with a domain - maybe with a Workgroup.

    Again, without seeing pictures of actual configurations and error messages, I have difficulty using my intuition to see possible issues.

    Cheers - Bob

     
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