Ignore /etc/resolv.conf; it's not really used by the system. Look at System Preferences / Network / <interface> / Advanced / DNS, instead.
Regards, Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On Dec 10, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Banana Flex wrote: > hello list, > > Our setup: > > - a MAN network with thousand of Mac computers running Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 > and 10.6 > - two linux servers running dhcp-3.1.3ESV and bind-9.5.0P2, redundant as a > cooperation, this is the main DHCP/DNS servers for the MAN > - a multitude of servers running Mac OS X Server (10.4, 10.5, 10.6) for our > clients, not centralized, connected to the MAN > - 13 DNS zones > - HSRP network by Cisco with circa 20 loop of a 23-bit range address (ex. : > 10.29.32.1/23, 10.29.36.1/23, 10.29.52.1/23, .../23), that is the MAN > > Each clients computers are connected to the centralized DHCP/DNS Linux > server's and are registered in the zone with the DynamicDNS function. > We use the DHCP Client ID (option 61) of the service to redirect and register > the client computer into the good domain > > The linux servers are in the main domain city.educational, at the first > level, it's IP addresses is 10.28.25.50 and 10.28.25.51 > All others zones are in the form: department.city.educational > > All clients machines are in DHCP. Servers are in DHCP with a statically > assigned address > > The problem: > > On 10.5 computers, all are still okay, you can found all records using the > host command and ping them: > > $ hostname > 002378.department.city.educational > > $ host 002378 > 002378.department.city.educational has address 10.29.76.13 > > $ host 10.29.76.13 > 13.76.29.10.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer > 002378.department.city.educational. > > $ ping -c3 002378 > PING 002378.department.city.educational (10.29.76.13): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 10.29.76.13: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.547 ms > 64 bytes from 10.29.76.13: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.512 ms > 64 bytes from 10.29.76.13: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.482 ms > > --- 002378.department.city.educational ping statistics --- > 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.482/0.514/0.547/0.027 ms > > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf > domain department.city.educational > search department.city.educational city.educational > department.city.educational > nameserver 10.28.25.50 > nameserver 10.28.25.51 > > on 10.6 computers, you can host but the ping does not work > > $ host 002378 > 002378.department.city.educational has address 10.29.76.13 > > $ ping 002378 > ping: cannot resolve 002378: Unknown host > > This mean that you can not resolve 002378 without his FQDN > > Graphically example is the "Connect to Server" window form the Finder with > the short name of the server resulting in a failed connection. > > On a 10.6, a printer like 500265 (FQDN = 500265.department.city.educational) > does not print if you not utilize the FQDN. On 10.4 and 10.5 all this work > > If you setup your 10.6 clients statically with the DNS, example with the > following command line: > networksetup -setsearchdomains Ethernet department.city.educational > city.educational > the problem disappaers and all is okay > > If you read the /etc/resolv.conf from a 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6 clients, all lines > are the same ! in DHCP setup or statically setup, > on a linux box is the same result ! > > I think Mac OS X 10.6 not interpret correctly the domain search from a DHCP > server because all others systems work well > > Please let me know if anyone in the list have the same problem or a workaround > Help are welcome > > Thank you for reading > Banana > > _______________________________________________ > dhcp-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcp-users _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
