From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 7:45:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E4337B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jeeves.velosystems.net (wsip68-15-85-238.oc.oc.cox.net [68.15.85.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1F543E5E for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:45:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@velosystems.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.velosystems.net [127.0.0.1]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42352A78D; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daemon.velosystems.net (daemon.velosystems.net [192.168.1.11]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88C9DA6B7; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: MS Dynamic DNS problems From: Steve Wingate To: Ross Lippert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200207181419.HAA20286@eskimo.com> References: <200207181419.HAA20286@eskimo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 18 Jul 2002 07:45:21 -0700 Message-Id: <1027003521.290.5.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message