Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:59:33 -0800 From: "Mike Maltese" <mike@pcmedx.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dhclient.conf or DHCP Message-ID: <007901c3b6b3$4eb14ef0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> References: <3FC8374F.2040301@comcast.net>
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> I have my freebsd DHCP server set up and working great. Well great for
> Windows clients, but not much so for BSD clients.
>
> Under the Windows clients I just set the host name and when the DHCP
> gets a request it dutifully does the job of assigning an IP address as
> well as putting in the proper DNS entries. I have tried the same for
> another BSD computer and it gets the IP address just fine but the
> request doesn't get passed on to DNS for updating.
>
> I tried the dhclient.conf being blank and then also tried putting in
> entries as suggested by man 5 dhclient.
>
> Any ideas on getting BSD to have the same behavior as Windows?
>
> This is what I have for dhcpd.conf
>
> option domain-name "squeaks.net";
> option domain-name-servers msmouse.squeaks.net,204.127.198.4;
> server-name "msmouse";
> server-identifier 192.168.100.250;
> key rndc-key {
> algorithm hmac-md5;
> secret "wouldn't you like to know";
> };
>
> zone squeaks.net. {
> primary 192.168.100.250;
> key rndc-key;
> }
>
> zone 100.168.192.in-addr.arpa. {
> primary 192.168.100.250;
> key rndc-key;
> }
>
> default-lease-time 600;
> max-lease-time 7200;
>
> # If this DHCP server is the official DHCP server for the local
> # network, the authoritative directive should be uncommented.
> authoritative;
>
> # ad-hoc DNS update scheme - set to "none" to disable dynamic DNS updates.
> ddns-update-style interim;
>
> # Use this to send dhcp log messages to a different log file (you also
> # have to hack syslog.conf to complete the redirection).
> log-facility local7;
>
> # No service will be given on this subnet, but declaring it helps the
> # DHCP server to understand the network topology.
>
> # This is a very basic subnet declaration.
>
> subnet 192.168.100.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> range 192.168.100.1 192.168.100.99;
> next-server 192.168.100.250;
> option routers 192.168.100.105;
> use-host-decl-names on;
> }
>
> dhclient.conf is...
> interface "ed0" {
> send host-name "pixie.squeaks.net";
> request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
> domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;
> script "/sbin/dhclient-script";
> require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
> }
Try ommiting the domain name. All you should really need in dhclient.conf is
send host-name "pixie";
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