[SOLVED] Pi no longer responds to Hostname

[deHakkelaar]

Your making a mistake with running "nslookup hostname".
By running "nslookup hostname", your asking the DNS server to resolve a non existing hostname called "hostname".

Syntax is:

Terminal

nslookup <HOSTNAME_THAT_YOU_WANT_TO_RESOLVE_TO_AN_IP_ADDRESS> <DNS_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS>

Looking at the response from nslookup that you posted before, it looks like the IP address for your DNS server is "1.1.1.1" but you can check by running below one:

Terminal

cat /etc/resolv.conf

So for example for the default hostname for XBian:

Terminal

nslookup xbian 1.1.1.1

Or lookup IP address for the forum:

Terminal

$ nslookup forum.xbian.org 1.1.1.1
Server: 1.1.1.1
Address 1: 1.1.1.1
Name: forum.xbian.org
Address 1: 77.235.33.28 web2.sd.eurovps.com

If you want to use DNS for resolving hostnames to IP addresses , you will need to configure your DNS server with A-records for all your hosts.
Or if you got a smart router/DHCP/DNS box, these will add DNS records automaticly upon DHCP renewal.

Alternativly if you dont want to use a DNS server but still want to resolve, you can edit the "/etc/hosts" file on every device and add lines for resolving names to IP (see 'localhost' entry as an example).
Ps. Windows location for the "hosts" file is "C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts".