VCSA DNS Error Troubleshoot

Setup Bind but vCenter appliance couldn’t see it. This is how you troubleshoot that.

To resolve this issue from vCenter:

Open the console to the vCenter Server Appliance and press CTRL+ALT+F3 and log in with root credentials that you mentioned during the install phase.
To enable shell, run this command.
shell.set –enabled true
Enter shell with this command:
shell
Ping the DNS servers to confirm communication with this command:
ping yourdnsfqdn
Use nslookup to make sure the vCenter Server Appliance can be resolved:
nslookup vcenterFQDN
Use the nslookup command to resolve the shortname.
After underlying networking issue is resolved, redeploy the vCenter Server Appliance.

My issue was that firewalld was blocking DNS and once I took it out it worked. Stop yelling I will add the rules once vCenter is installed fully.

It is recommended that once you are able to reach DNS – you should redeploy vCenter.

Hope this helped.

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