Re: private address: debian and windows are OK, OS-0X and SuSE no
Hi
I had the same problem with osx clients in a local dns domain.
OS X uses .local for rendezvous services. i think there is no way to
change the osx behaviour via dhcp.
my solution was to change the local dns name.
Maximilan Weber
> Problem:
> I have some subnets with local addresses.
> Almost all hosts in these subnets are laptops, getting parameters via
> DHCP
> To go outside users must log into the gateway, that give them a natted
> address to outside world.
> To get the name for the gateway (that is different for any subnet) i have
> set a DNS on each gateway, that is responding to the domain
> "net.local" so anyone poiinting to http://net.local"get the correct login
> page.
> It worked fine whit every system [using Windows in various flavours and
> linus in debian and mandrake flavours] until two people carried three
> computers: two with Apple and one with SuSE .
> Neither one worked !
> It looks their resolver is unhappy with "net.local" name !
> [if i put «192.168.143.1 net.local» in /etc/hosts file they works, but
> then
> the automatic detection of the server is lost]
> Other than changing the name to net.loc is there any way to force those
> systems to accept a 5 letters tld ?
> --
> Leonardo Boselli
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> Universita` di Firenze , V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze
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