From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 8:12:31 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 4AB4D37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (pimout1-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96A343E67 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vetter_david@sbcglobal.net) Received: from handbasket (adsl-63-195-109-194.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.109.194]) by pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id g6IFCDQ36810; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:12:13 -0400 Message-ID: <004b01c22e6d$784e5e30$c26dc33f@handbasket> From: "David" To: "Ross Lippert" , Cc: References: <200207181507.IAA24424@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: MS Dynamic DNS problems Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:11:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 ----- Original Message ----- > Thanks for the quick reply, Steve. > > 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. > There are a couple palces in your /etc directory you may want to look. For example, the settings you indicate they added are usually stored in the /etc/resolv.conf file. Make sure you have the proper domain specified there. Also make sure your fully-qualified domain name includes the appropriate domain, and the same name as the Win2k side of your machine. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message