[NTLUG:Discuss] dhclient problems

[Carl Haddick]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:10:31AM -0500, kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> I've got some RH9.0 systems that are runing dhclient, and they don't work 
> so well. :-(
> 
> While they register themselves just fine, to a MS DHCP server, if you try a 
> forward lookup (e.g. "host my-comp-name"), you get an error back about 
> unknown server.  BTW, the computer has a static hostname, not a DHCP 
> assigned one.

Could this be strictly a resolver problem, not associated with dhcp?
Once the lease has been obtained, dhcp is out of the loop, and you are
running just as if you had manually, statically assigned your IP and
name servers. Have you looked at /etc/resolv.conf to see what name
servers you're running?

I use dhcp at my office on my Linux boxes, but I think I just hard coded
the dns addresses in resolv.conf myself.  Not sure what options dhcp has
for doing that more automatically - I know my wvdial setup leaves name
server info in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf, which is where my dialup script
grabs the new resolv.conf from on connect.

Good luck,

Carl