Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:07:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> To: steve@velosystems.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Dynamic DNS problems Message-ID: <200207181507.IAA24424@eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <1027003521.290.5.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> (message from Steve Wingate on 18 Jul 2002 07:45:21 -0700)
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Thanks for the quick reply, Steve. I do not think I will be able to prevail upon them for any changes to the DNS server. Like I said, they are committed to MSWin support, and do not budge unless the problem impacts MSWin support. I suspect that since they were about to modify my laptop's win2k install so that it started showing up in DNS, that there must be something doable on the client-side alone, if only I knew what that was. I have since rebooted to win2k to look at the configuration panel that was changed to get the fix. It is the "advanced" popup under the DNS tab in the TCP/IP properties (gosh why can't people just use directories). The suffix list used to be empty, and unchecked, and now it is populated and checked, as previously described. Secondly, I have noticed a checkbox at the bottom of this panel of the form "use suffix in registration" which might have also been checked during the fix. While win2k was up, I was able to ping the laptop. Then I rebooted to FreeBSD (getting the same IP addr from DHCP) and pinged again and my DNS entry had disappeared, no ping. Though pings by raw IP addr work fine. -r >Subject: Re: MS Dynamic DNS problems >From: Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net> >To: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> >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 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 > >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
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