topic Re: ERROR:DNS_ERROR_BAD_PACKET - VCSA 6.5 in VMware vCenter™ Discussions https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/ERROR-DNS-ERROR-BAD-PACKET-VCSA-6-5/m-p/499131#M7547 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Two things to start of with -</P><P></P><P>1) Check the nameserver IP in the /etc/resolv.conf file. If it is wrong, edit the file with the right IP and then try to join to the domain.</P><P>2) In case of complex DNS environments, the DNS reply might exceed 512 bytes and will be sent over TCP port 53. Check if this port is open throughout.</P><P></P><P>Cheers,</P><P>Supreet</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 06 Oct 2018 15:24:39 GMT SupreetK 2018-10-06T15:24:39Z ERROR:DNS_ERROR_BAD_PACKET - VCSA 6.5 https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/ERROR-DNS-ERROR-BAD-PACKET-VCSA-6-5/m-p/499130#M7546 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello</P><P></P><P>We have deployed the VCSA&nbsp; 6.5 on newly build ESXi host. This appliance is behind the Firewall but when we try to join this in to domain, we are getting below error.</P><P></P><P>20181004173937:INFO:File /tmp/likewisetmpFjewzL/etc/krb5.conf modified</P><P>20181004173937:INFO:Finishing krb5.conf configuration</P><P>20181004174621:ERROR:DNS_ERROR_BAD_PACKET [DNS_ERROR_BAD_PACKET]</P><P></P><P></P><P>A bad packet was received from a DNS server. Potentially the requested address does not exist.</P><P></P><P>Can anyone help.</P><P></P><P>- Firewall ports are opened</P><P>- NTP setting is ok</P><P>- DNS setting are ok</P><P>- name resolution are ok from outside the network.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 05 Oct 2018 19:04:26 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/ERROR-DNS-ERROR-BAD-PACKET-VCSA-6-5/m-p/499130#M7546 suhag79 2018-10-05T19:04:26Z Re: ERROR:DNS_ERROR_BAD_PACKET - VCSA 6.5 https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/ERROR-DNS-ERROR-BAD-PACKET-VCSA-6-5/m-p/499131#M7547 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Two things to start of with -</P><P></P><P>1) Check the nameserver IP in the /etc/resolv.conf file. If it is wrong, edit the file with the right IP and then try to join to the domain.</P><P>2) In case of complex DNS environments, the DNS reply might exceed 512 bytes and will be sent over TCP port 53. Check if this port is open throughout.</P><P></P><P>Cheers,</P><P>Supreet</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 06 Oct 2018 15:24:39 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/ERROR-DNS-ERROR-BAD-PACKET-VCSA-6-5/m-p/499131#M7547 SupreetK 2018-10-06T15:24:39Z