Hi, I have a dual boot linux/win2k box in an all MS system that uses DHCP and DNS and WINS. Heres the problem ( pardon me for not being brief enough, but i dont want to be flamed for 'not enough data')
I boot in win2k first, get an ip addr x from the dhcp server. the mapping between ip addr x and hostname works fine. I reboot into linux get another addres y ( of course, my first question was that why is y different from x, even though the lease from dns is for longer durations. googling a little i found out that inspiteof same MAC addrs, the dhcp clients format their requests differently so the server issues seperate addresses thinking of them as 2 different machines with same MAC address and not 2 different os on one machine. I buy that). The problem is y doesn't maps to my hostname, the dns still has the old hostname to x mapping. I have configured dhclient on linux (PCQ 2004), with nmbd as WINS client. If the responsibility of updating the DNS is that of DHCP server (thats what i think, correct me if ms dhcp client does this), why am i getting different behaviours in linux and windows ? Thanks in advance Qasim Zaidi PS: please mark a cc of responses to mqzaidi at yahoo dot com ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
