Name resolution is only working from server side. Clients cannot resolve host names.

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Hi Everyone,

I have resolved the issue as far as DNS is concerned. I turned off the iptables by running command "service iptables stop" ... and there it was .. all clients started pinging the hostname of DNS Server. So looks like there is some issue with iptables configuration. Unfortunately I am not very good at iptables so will research more into that and will start a new thread if required. Thanks all for your ideas and contributions.

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avahi-resolve-address

avahi-resolve(1)					      General Commands Manual						  avahi-resolve(1)

NAME

       avahi-resolve - Resolve one or more mDNS/DNS host name(s) to IP address(es) (and vice versa) using the Avahi daemon

SYNOPSIS

       avahi-resolve --name host-name ...

       avahi-resolve-host-name host-name ...

       avahi-resolve --address address ...

       avahi-resolve-address address ...

DESCRIPTION

       Resolve one or more mDNS/DNS host name(s) to IP address(es) (and vice versa) using the Avahi daemon.

OPTIONS

       When  passing  -n, specify one or more fully qualified mDNS/DNS host name(s) (e.g. "foo.local") to resolve into IP addresses on the command
       line. When passing -a, specify one or more IP address to resolve into host names.

       avahi-resolve-host-name is equivalent to avahi-resolve --name.

       avahi-resolve-address is equivalent to avahi-resolve --address.

       -n | --name
	      Translate one or more fully qualified host names into addresses.

       -a | --address
	      Translate one or more addresses into fully qualified host names.

       -v | --verbose
	      Enable verbose mode.

       -6     When resolving a host name, look for IPv6 addresses exclusively.

       -4     When resolving a host name, look for IPv4 addresses exclusively.

       -h | --help
	      Show help.

       -V | --version
	      Show version information.

AUTHORS

       The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/

SEE ALSO

       avahi-publish-address(1), avahi-daemon(8)

COMMENTS

       This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.

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