Trouble Resolving *.htb names

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Whenever I attempt any machines on HTB, I use the provided VPN. I am able to reach the machine and run a succesful and accurate port scan on the system. I can make a connection to the machines’ HTTP-related ports. The web server running on the machine usually replies with a 301 redirect to whatever *.htb domain the machine was given. When my VM attempts to make the request to that domain, I am returned with my router’s web portal, and the router is my VM’s DNS server. Correct me if I am wrong, but this indicates a failure to properly resolve the *.htb domain. So my questions are:

  1. Is there a specific HTB name server I am supposed to be using during the labs?
  2. Has anyone else experienced this and do you have a solution to the problem?
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Nice job troubleshooting so far. Currently, a DNS server is not setup as part of the labs. You will need to add entries to your machines hosts file as applicable to add the relevant host names.

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First of all, operating systems have some domain and ip definitions. You don’t need dns service to resolve every domain. (for example localhost:127.0.0.1) you can continue by finding where this host and ip record is written. /etc/h****

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Informative post