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Date:      18 Jul 2002 07:45:21 -0700
From:      Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
To:        Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MS Dynamic DNS problems
Message-ID:  <1027003521.290.5.camel@daemon.velosystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <200207181419.HAA20286@eskimo.com>
References:  <200207181419.HAA20286@eskimo.com>

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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".




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