Hi there,
I have a networking problem that I can't seem to find a solution to anywhere on the web or these forums.
I have just installed a new system with FreeBSD 8.1 and I placed it on my (almost entirely Windows) office network. The network has a Windows DHCP/DDNS server which supplies IP addresses and handles name lookups for the entire LAN.
My FreeBSD client is able to automatically receive an IP address from the Windows DHCP server and has it's DNS server settings are auto-configured from the same DHCP server. From the FreeBSD client I can ping all other systems on the network by their hostname with no problem. However I can't ping the FreeBSD client by hostname from any machine including itself although I can ping by IP address. So the FreeBSD system is using the DNS server correctly to resolve other hostnames on the LAN but not its own.
On inspection of the Windows DNS server it is evident that the FreeBSD client is not registering itself with the DDNS server.
Here is my dhclient.conf on the FreeBSD box :
I am guessing that I am missing something that needs to be sent to the DDNS server to prompt it to create the DNS lookup entry for the FreeBSD client but I'm not sure what.
Any ideas? Any help would be gratefully received.
Thanks.
I have a networking problem that I can't seem to find a solution to anywhere on the web or these forums.
I have just installed a new system with FreeBSD 8.1 and I placed it on my (almost entirely Windows) office network. The network has a Windows DHCP/DDNS server which supplies IP addresses and handles name lookups for the entire LAN.
My FreeBSD client is able to automatically receive an IP address from the Windows DHCP server and has it's DNS server settings are auto-configured from the same DHCP server. From the FreeBSD client I can ping all other systems on the network by their hostname with no problem. However I can't ping the FreeBSD client by hostname from any machine including itself although I can ping by IP address. So the FreeBSD system is using the DNS server correctly to resolve other hostnames on the LAN but not its own.
On inspection of the Windows DNS server it is evident that the FreeBSD client is not registering itself with the DDNS server.
Here is my dhclient.conf on the FreeBSD box :
Code:
interface "le0" {
send host-name "freebsd.xxxxx.yyy";
send dhcp-client-identifier 00:0c:29:fa:a3:f7;
}
Any ideas? Any help would be gratefully received.
Thanks.