Re: DHCP

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Mike Smith wrote:

> I've set up the dhcpd debian package (0.5.13-4) with only Win95 machines
> using it at present.  For some reason this is causing a problem with the
> local DNS mapping.  One day everything works like it should, the next
> day the DHCP clients won't see local machines except by IP address.
> There is no consistency to the problem...it's been working fine the last
> 5 days, but didn't work the 3 days before that.  There is never (barring
> other network problems :) any trouble with outside sites finding our
> machines or ours finding outside machines.
> 
> I'm at a loss as to what could be causing this.  Any ideas?  The
> DNS stuff worked just fine before I changed the Win95 boxes and still
> works fine on non DHCP clients.

Do you have the name-servers defined in the /etc/dhcpd.conf file?

e.g. if your nameservers are at 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, then you
should have a line like:

    option name-servers 192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2

craig

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