DHCP client questions

2009-09-20 Thread stan
We have been bought out, and the new powers that be, are changing things. They have decreed that there shall be no static entries in their DNS servers. They are using $MS DHCP/DNS servers. I have a corporate supported Win XP laptop, which I can plug in at various places in the network. It gets

Re: DHCP client questions

2009-09-20 Thread David Horn
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:19 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: We have been bought out, and the new powers that be, are changing things. They have decreed that there shall be no static entries in their DNS servers. They are using $MS DHCP/DNS servers. I have a corporate supported Win XP laptop,

Re: DHCP client questions

2009-09-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 20 September 2009 21:19:28 stan wrote: I have several machines (such as a mailserver) which _MUST_ have fixed names. I have played around with /etc/dhcllient.conf, but not managed to get this working. I can get IP addresses, and various things such as default routers, and DNS

Re: DHCP client questions

2009-09-20 Thread Michael Powell
Mel Flynn wrote: On Sunday 20 September 2009 21:19:28 stan wrote: I have several machines (such as a mailserver) which _MUST_ have fixed names. I have played around with /etc/dhcllient.conf, but not managed to get this working. I can get IP addresses, and various things such as default