[NTLUG:Discuss] dhclient problems

[Chris Cox]

Carl Haddick wrote:
> 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.

Specifically, Kevin is talking about RH's dhclient in that it CAN'T
make the dynamic update to the Microsoft DNS server.  It should
be able to do this.... however, I told Kevin I haven't used dhclient
in that way in about a year... and of course, the normal RH oddities
are also a variable.