----- Original Message ----- > Thanks for the quick reply, Steve. > > I suspect that since they were about to modify my laptop's win2k install > so that it started showing up in DNS, that there must be something doable > on the client-side alone, if only I knew what that was. > > I have since rebooted to win2k to look at the configuration panel that was > changed to get the fix. It is the "advanced" popup under the DNS tab in the > TCP/IP properties (gosh why can't people just use directories). > > The suffix list used to be empty, and unchecked, and now it is > populated and checked, as previously described. Secondly, I have > noticed a checkbox at the bottom of this panel of the form "use suffix > in registration" which might have also been checked during the fix. > > While win2k was up, I was able to ping the laptop. Then I rebooted to > FreeBSD (getting the same IP addr from DHCP) and pinged again and my DNS > entry had disappeared, no ping. Though pings by raw IP addr work fine. >
There are a couple palces in your /etc directory you may want to look. For example, the settings you indicate they added are usually stored in the /etc/resolv.conf file. Make sure you have the proper domain specified there. Also make sure your fully-qualified domain name includes the appropriate domain, and the same name as the Win2k side of your machine. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
