Hosts File?

[DoZZa]

Hello all,

I am having some difficulty in making some changes to the hosts file.

Router is an AC66U with merlin 378.53

I am using the JFFS partition and have tried a couple of ways to get it to work.

Basically I am in the process of setting up an ESXi lab in my office and do not have a dedicated DNS server.

I have set the host name of the ESXi server to esxi. I will also have another server called vcenter.

I have also set a local domain name of poseidon.local in the ESXi server.

I initially tried to edit the hosts file located etc/hosts but of course the additions did not stick after a reboot of the router.

I then added a file called hosts.add to the jffs/config folder with the following entries.

192.168.0.100 esxi.poseison.local esxi
192.168.0.101 vcenter.poseidon.local vcenter

This has not worked, if I try to ping any of the addresses above, I get an error saying they cannot be found.

I then tried a different approach and made a file called hosts.dnsmasq.add in the jffs/config folder with the same entries above. However, still I am not able to resolve any of the hosts.

I am also not sure about adding multiple names after the IP address.

Are the following entries correct?

192.168.0.100 esxi.poseison.local esxi
192.168.0.101 vcenter.poseidon.local vcenter

Or would I have to do something like this;

192.168.0.100 esxi.poseison.local
192.168.0.100 esxi
192.168.0.101 vcenter.poseidon.local
192.168.0.101 vcenter

Thanks for your help

 

[DoZZa]

Never mind, I managed to figure it out.

hosts.dnsmasq.add is not a valid configuration file anyway.

Managed to get it to work with hosts.add.

I put a copy in jffs and jffs/config just to be sure.

All good now