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by **Michael A. Painter Jr** » Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:15:43

Hi all,
I've got a weird problem to say the least. I am using Redhat 9 for DNS
and DHCP with a bunch of mixed windows clients. The Windows XP Pro clients
seem to forget that the primary DNS exists and use the secondary and
tertiary servers. It wouldn't be bad but I'm running a private domain
behind a firewall. The 2nd and 3rd DNS are for my ISP and the 1st is mine.
Windows 98 doesn't seem to have a problem.

My dhcpd.conf is as follows:

ddns-update-style interim;
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
max-lease-time 3600;
default-lease-time 3600;
option domain-name "pcdataoffice.com";
option netbios-name-servers netserver.pcdataoffice.com;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.18 , 64.65.223.6 , 64.65.208.6;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.200;
}

I'm sure it is something with Windows XP but does anyone know why this may
happen.

by **Seth H Holme** » Sat, 28 Jun 2003 05:11:32

Quote:
> I'm sure it is something with Windows XP but does anyone know why this may
> happen.

You may have more luck in a Windows newsgroup as it does appear
to be Windows related.

--
Seth H Holmes

by **Doug Holt** » Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:56:08

Quote:> Hi all,
> I've got a weird problem to say the least. I am using Redhat 9 for
DNS
> and DHCP with a bunch of mixed windows clients. The Windows XP Pro
clients
> seem to forget that the primary DNS exists and use the secondary and
> tertiary servers. It wouldn't be bad but I'm running a private domain
> behind a firewall. The 2nd and 3rd DNS are for my ISP and the 1st is
mine.
> Windows 98 doesn't seem to have a problem.

> My dhcpd.conf is as follows:

> ddns-update-style interim;
> subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> max-lease-time 3600;
> default-lease-time 3600;
> option domain-name "pcdataoffice.com";
> option netbios-name-servers netserver.pcdataoffice.com;
> option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.18 , 64.65.223.6 ,
64.65.208.6;
> option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> option routers 192.168.1.1;
> range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.200;
> }

> I'm sure it is something with Windows XP but does anyone know why this may
> happen.

I've found my XP machines to not play nice with linux "if" a Windows server
OS is running somewhere. If I use W2003 server as my dhcp and dns, then my
linux box "goes away" from the XP Pro machines. It has to do with active
directory rejecting linux/samba for some reason.

Doug

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