When the problem is DNS: FreeNAS and NFS
Posted on Sun 07 January 2018 in Tech • Tagged with Tech, Linux
I discovered a while ago that NFS requires DNS to function correctly: https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/4983
That's somewhat annoying, because when your DNS server goes down (and your backups are stored on your FreeNAS server and accessed over NFS), is precisely the time when you really want your backups to be accessible.
However, turns out it doesn't aaaaactuallyyyyy need DNS... it needs name resolution. Specifically, FreeNAS just needs to be able to resolve it's own hostname. Cue the handy-dandy hosts file.
Under Network -> Global Configuration -> Host name data …
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