> FWIW there is another weirdness of windows, the windows DHCP server doesn't > communicate with the DNS server on windows, it expects the client to send an > Inform packet to the DHCP server telling it of the clients chosen name.
i guess that's the great thing about standards — there are so many to ignore. i haven't had a lick of trouble supporting windows clients with plan 9 dhcp/dns. no one ever asked about short names. - erik