A new DNS puzzle

Nathan Meyers nmeyers at javalinux.net
Thu Sep 19 22:26:37 EDT 2002


On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:16:18PM -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> As I said earlier, I've seen exactly this behavior with W2k clients
> before, where the DNS and DHCP servers were all running Linux.  I'm
> reasonably certain this is a client-side bug, and not related to the
> DNS running on W2k servers in the slightest.  As for why it only
> affects clients trying to get to Linux boxes, I believe this is
> because those machines do not participate in an NT/2K domain, and have
> no WINS information to fall back upon.  Have no factual data to back
> that up, but it seems logical...

It's the most sensible explanation to date, and fits what I'm seeing.

Nathan



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