From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 20 19:19:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE311065676 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:19:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.1.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100238FC0A for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6E638E4D for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:19:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from teddy.fas.com (c-76-26-200-187.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [76.26.200.187]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356E83294D for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:19:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MpRwW-0000R4-00 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:19:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:19:28 -0400 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Message-ID: <20090920191928.GA1537@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 15:11:15 up 50 days, 20:13, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.08, 0.03 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Subject: DHCP client questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:19:30 -0000 We have been bought out, and the new powers that be, are changing things. They have decreed that there shall be no static entries in their DNS servers. They are using $MS DHCP/DNS servers. I have a corporate supported Win XP laptop, which I can plug in at various places in the network. It gets different IP addresses, based upon where it physically is, but always comes up with the same name. I have several machines (such as a mailserver) which _MUST_ have fixed names. I have played around with /etc/dhcllient.conf, but not managed to get this working. I can get IP addresses, and various things such as default routers, and DNS servers, but I have not managed to get the suggested name put in their DNS. I have captured packet traces with wireshark from the laptop, and from the FreebSD client, and I am putting these up at http://beachcave.net/pdumps. I would really appreciate it if someone more familiar with DHCP that I could take a look at theses. Thanks. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.