On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 07:19, Ross Lippert wrote: > > I think I am having problems similar to those described here: > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2292608+2295040+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-questions/20020623.freebsd-questions > > Basically, something in the network at work here changed and now my > FreeBSD laptop no longer updates its DNS entry when it moves. > > I have it dual booting Win2k/FreeBSD4.5. When I boot in win2k the DNS > does get updated, but when I boot in FreeBSD, the DNS does not. The > interface is DHCP with dynamic DNS running on an MS implementation. > > Now, as an added clue, it used to be that the Win2k boot would not > update the DNS entry, so I took it to the support center (which is > committed to supporting MSWin, but only barely tolerant of anything > else). The fix they employed there was to pull up the DNS > configuration panel and set some sort of domain suffix list to a set > of names they had handy which looked like "xxx.com yyy.xxx.com > zzz.com" and reboot Win2k and after that, DNS updated. > > Has anyone experienced this? Can anyone suggest a possible modification > to the FreeBSD conf files which emulates the fix they did for win2k? >
There is an option on the win2k dns server to "enable updates for dns clients that do not support dynamic updates". I don't know if the freebsd dns client does so check that. Also "update dns only if dhcp client requests", may want to change that to "always update dns". To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
